In spite of his people, he resolved to make them great and glorious,--to make England, inclined to shrink into her narrow self, the arbitress of Europe, the tutelary angel of the human race.
Edmund Burke: “In spite of his people, he resolved to make them great and glorious,--to make England, inclined to shrink into her…”
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Burke reflects on the ambition of a leader to elevate their nation on the global stage.
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