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Take what course you please,--union or no union; whether the people remain Catholics or become Protestant Dissenters, sure it is that the present state of monopoly cannot continue.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “Take what course you please,--union or no union; whether the people remain Catholics or become Protestant Dissenters…”
Editor's note · Context
Burke argues that the current state of monopoly cannot persist regardless of religious affiliations.
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