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I knew that, attacked on all sides by the infernal energies of talents set in action by vice and disorder, authority could not stand upon authority alone.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “I knew that, attacked on all sides by the infernal energies of talents set in action by vice and disorder, authority…”
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Burke asserts that authority cannot rely solely on its own power when faced with challenges.
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