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We see that in future you are to be destroyed with more form and regularity.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “We see that in future you are to be destroyed with more form and regularity.”
Editor's note · Context
Burke warns that future governance will be marked by systematic oppression rather than genuine peace.
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