"Resolved to die in the last dike of prevarication."
— Edmund Burke

January 1, 1970

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Speech on the sixth article of charge in the impeachment of Warren Hastings (7 May 1789), quoted in The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume the Tenth (1899), p. 406