It may modify, it may mitigate, and it may render perfectly secure, all that it does not think fit to take away.
Edmund Burke: “It may modify, it may mitigate, and it may render perfectly secure, all that it does not think fit to take away.”
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Burke discusses the flexibility of Parliament in managing laws and regulations.
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