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It would be to introduce compulsion into that in which freedom and existence are the same: I mean credit.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “It would be to introduce compulsion into that in which freedom and existence are the same: I mean credit.”
Editor's note · Context
Burke argues that introducing compulsion into credit undermines the very nature of freedom associated with financial transactions.
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