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Quote by Edmund Burke
It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ide

It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people. – Edmund Burke

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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation. – Edmund Burke

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