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It is not a hazarded assertion, it is a great truth, that, when once things are gone out of their ordinary course, it is by acts out of the ordinary course they can alone be reëstablished.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke asserts that extraordinary circumstances require extraordinary actions to restore order.
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