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We shall see a king, to reduce his people to obedience, draw into his territories a tumultuary foreign army, and destroy his country instead of establishing his government.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “We shall see a king, to reduce his people to obedience, draw into his territories a tumultuary foreign army, and destroy…”
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Burke describes the destructive consequences of a king relying on foreign armies to maintain control.
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