People crushed by law 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.

Edmund Burke (1729-1797) Anglo-Irish statesman, orator, philosopher
Letter to Charles James Fox (8 Oct 1777)

 
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