In most of the capital changes that are recorded in the principles and system of any government, a public benefit of some kind or other has been pretended.
Edmund Burke: “In most of the capital changes that are recorded in the principles and system of any government, a public benefit of…”
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Burke notes that significant governmental changes often claim to benefit the public.
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