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Perhaps it would be full as dangerous to have the people under the conduct of factious pastors of their own as under a foreign ecclesiastical court.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke warns against the dangers of having people led by divisive local leaders or foreign authorities, emphasizing the need for unity.
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