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They boast that they operated their usurpation rather by terror than by force, and that a few seasonable murders have prevented the bloodshed of many battles.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “They boast that they operated their usurpation rather by terror than by force, and that a few seasonable murders have…”
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Burke critiques the use of terror and murder as a means to maintain power.
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