In vain you tell me that artificial government is good, but that I fall out only with the abuse. The thing! the thing itself is the abuse! (Edmund Burke)

In vain you tell me that artificial government is good, but that I fall out only with the abuse. The thing! the thing itself is the abuse!

Edmund Burke

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