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When I contemplate these things when I know that the Colonies in general owe little or nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints of watchful and suspicious government, but that, through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection when I reflect upon these effects when I see how profitable they have been to us, I feel all the pride of power sink, and all presumption in the wisdom of human contrivances melt and die away within me.—Edmund Burke, speech in the House of Commons, March 22, 1775Which British policy towards the colony would this speaker most likely support?

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