On the recordJanuary 1, 1790
Whatever I may have reason to suspect concerning private management, I shall speak of nothing as of a certainty but what is public.
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Edmund Burke
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From his critique of the French Revolution, Burke states his principle of only discussing publicly verifiable information.
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