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Not meaning to depreciate the minority in Parliament, whose talents are also great, and to whom I do not deny virtues, their system seems to me to be fundamentally wrong.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “Not meaning to depreciate the minority in Parliament, whose talents are also great, and to whom I do not deny virtues…”
Editor's note · Context
Burke acknowledges the talents of the minority in Parliament but believes their approach is fundamentally flawed.
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