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Let it, however, be remembered by others, that, if the commissioners should be his friends, they cannot be his slaves.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “Let it, however, be remembered by others, that, if the commissioners should be his friends, they cannot be his slaves.”
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Burke reminds that commissioners, even if friends of a minister, cannot be subservient to him.
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