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  • To give freedom is still more easy. It is not necessary to guide; it only requires to let go the rein. But to form a free government; that is, to temper together these opposite elements of liberty and restraint in one work, requires much thought, deep reflection, a sagacious, powerful, and combining mind.

    Edmund Burke (1912). “Reflections on the French Revolution”, p.251, CUP Archive
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