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How could they expect that there should exist any discipline, any subordination, when even in the camp they permit motions, censures, and denunciations of officers and of generals?
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Edmund Burke
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Editor's note · Context
Burke questions the feasibility of maintaining discipline in the military amidst chaos and dissent.
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