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Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist. - Edmund Burke Attribution: Edmund Burke (1729–1797), Irish philosopher, statesman. Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol, April 3, 1777, repr. In Works, vol. 2 (1899).

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