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I will venture to say there is no one act, in which tyranny, malice, cruelty, and oppression can be charged, that does not at the same time carry evident marks of pecuniary corruption.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke asserted that acts of tyranny and oppression are often accompanied by signs of financial corruption.
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