On the record
No! but the payment of half twenty shillings, on the principle it was demanded, would have made him a slave.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “No! but the payment of half twenty shillings, on the principle it was demanded, would have made him a slave.”
Editor's note · Context
Burke uses the example of Hampden to illustrate the principle of unjust taxation leading to enslavement.
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