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Then would it not have been better to have left these estates in the hands of their owners, and to have oppressed them in some moderate, decent way?
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “Then would it not have been better to have left these estates in the hands of their owners, and to have oppressed them…”
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Burke suggests that it would have been better to leave estates with their owners, advocating for a more humane approach to governance.
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