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It is nothing to an oppressed people, to say that in part they are protected at our charge.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgIt is nothing to an oppressed people, to say that in part they are protected at our charge.
Burke states that mere protection is insufficient for an oppressed people.
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