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We shall behold the people, grown desperate, call in another foreign army, with a foreign prince at its head, and throw away that liberty which they had sacrificed everything to preserve.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke foresees the desperation of the people leading them to invite foreign intervention against their own government.
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