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Where else should it reside, but in those who are to pay the expense?
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “Where else should it reside, but in those who are to pay the expense?”
Editor's note · Context
Burke argues that the right to decide on war and peace should reside with those who bear the financial burden of such decisions.
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