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Edmund Burke: Its hostile amity can be obtained on no terms that do not imply an inability hereafter to resist its designs.

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Its hostile amity can be obtained on no terms that do not imply an inability hereafter to resist its designs.
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Edmund Burke

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Burke states that any peace with a hostile power would compromise future resistance.

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