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Gratitude and humanity require that provision should be made by you, before you set the Nabob's ministers loose on the country, for the protection of the victims devoted to their vengeance.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke calls for protective measures for those at risk from the Nabob's ministers, appealing to moral duty.
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