I hope we shall never be so totally lost to all sense of the duties imposed upon us by the law of social union, as, upon any pretest of public service, to confiscate the goods of a single unoffending citizen.
Edmund Burke
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- Works, volume III; source text line 10105
- Works, volume III; source text line 10105
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