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Where there is not a vigorous rivalship, not only tolerated, but encouraged, it is impossible ever to redeem the manufacturers from the servitude induced by those unpaid balances.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke argues that without vigorous competition, manufacturers cannot escape economic servitude.
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