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You do not imagine that I wish to confine power, authority, and distinction to blood and names and titles.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “You do not imagine that I wish to confine power, authority, and distinction to blood and names and titles.”
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Burke expresses that he does not wish to limit power and authority solely to those of noble birth.
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