"The origin of all plunders, the source of all robbery."
— Robert Clive

January 1, 1970

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Charles James Fox, speech in the House of Commons (21 May 1773), quoted in Memorials and Correspondence of Charles James Fox, Vol. I, ed. Lord John Russell (1853), p. 92