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Quote from Edmund Burke,


"People crushed by law have no hope but from power.
If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws;
and those who have much to hope and nothing to lose
will always be dangerous..."


By:

Edmund Burke (more quotes by Edmund Burke or books by/about Edmund Burke)


(1729-1797) Irish-born British statesman, parliamentary orator, and political thinker

Source:

Letter to the Hon. C. J. Fox, October 8, 1777

Categories:

Anarchy, Law, Oppression, Power

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