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I was an Irishman in the Irish business, just as much as I was an American, when, on the same principles, I wished you to concede to America at a time when she prayed concession at our feet.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “I was an Irishman in the Irish business, just as much as I was an American, when, on the same principles, I wished you…”
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Burke asserts his dual identity as both an Irishman and an American in the context of political concessions.
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