Hastings never dared, because he could not, arrest oppression in its course, without drying up the source of his own corrupt emolument.
Edmund Burke: “Hastings never dared, because he could not, arrest oppression in its course, without drying up the source of his own…”
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Burke illustrates how Hastings' corruption prevents him from stopping oppression.
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