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Edmund Burke1729–1797

It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.

Edmund Burke on justice

Second Speech on Conciliation with America (1775)

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