On the record
If you do, you give its death-wound to your English revenue at home, and to one of the very greatest articles of your own foreign trade.
Said by
Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgIf you do, you give its death-wound to your English revenue at home, and to one of the very greatest articles of your own foreign trade.
Burke warns that imposing certain taxes could severely harm English revenue and trade.
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