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People, crushed by laws, have no hopes 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, more or less.
People, crushed by laws, have no hopes 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, more or less.
Approximate author period: c. 1763 AD · early modern
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- Edmund Burke
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- Approximate author period: c. 1763 AD · early modern
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- Dictionary of Quotations (1893) (1893 AD)
Printed citation: Burke. · page_344
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