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If you drive the people from one place, they will carry on their annual tillage, and remove with their flocks and herds to another.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “If you drive the people from one place, they will carry on their annual tillage, and remove with their flocks and herds…”
Editor's note · Context
Burke notes that displaced people will continue their agricultural practices elsewhere.
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