On the record
Observe, my Lords, the difference in his treatment of men who have wealth to purchase impunity, or who have secrets to reveal, and of another who has no such merit, and is poor and insolvent.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke points out the disparity in treatment between the wealthy and the poor in the justice system.
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