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Edmund Burke: “But, in truth, this dread of penury of supply from a free assembly has no foundation in Nature.”

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But, in truth, this dread of penury of supply from a free assembly has no foundation in Nature.
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Edmund Burke

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Burke asserts that the fear of a lack of resources from a free assembly is unfounded and not based in reality.

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