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Edmund Burke: “But when I consider that we have colonies for no purpose but to be serviceable to us, it seems to my poor understanding…”

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But when I consider that we have colonies for no purpose but to be serviceable to us, it seems to my poor understanding a little preposterous to make them unserviceable, in order to keep them obedient.
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Edmund Burke

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Burke argues that it is illogical to make the colonies less useful in order to ensure their obedience.

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