Of this stamp is the cant of Not men, but measures — Edmund Burke

Of this stamp is the cant of Not men, but measures; a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honourable engagement.

Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770); see Canning 84:9, Goldsmith 153:21

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