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No disaster of war, no calamity of season, could ever strike me with half the horror which I felt from what is introduced to us by this junction of parties under the soothing name of peace.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke expresses his deep horror at the political situation, emphasizing the dangers of deceptive peace.
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