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But, believe me, if Ireland is beneficial to you, it is so not from the parts in which it is restrained, but from those in which it is left free, though not left unrivalled.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke argues that Ireland's benefits to Britain come from its freedoms, not restrictions.
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