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Is not the assurance given by that noble person to the colonies of a resolution to lay no more taxes on them an admission that taxes would touch and grieve them?
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Edmund Burke
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Burke argues that the assurance of no new taxes acknowledges the emotional impact of taxation on the colonies.
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