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Edmund Burke: Adhering, Sir, as I do, to this policy, as well as for the reasons I have just given, I think this new project of…

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Adhering, Sir, as I do, to this policy, as well as for the reasons I have just given, I think this new project of hedging in population to be neither prudent nor practicable.
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Edmund Burke

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Burke critiques a policy that restricts population movement, arguing it is neither wise nor feasible.

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