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Quotes from Speech on the Independence of Parliament — Edmund Burke

1729–1797 Ireland

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Frugality is founded on the principle that all riches have limits.

Speech on the Independence of Parliament (1780)

Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions, any bungler can add to the old.

Speech on the Independence of Parliament (1780)

They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.

Speech on the Independence of Parliament (1780)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Edmund Burke (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.