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Happy would it be for us, if, in all tempers, they might turn their eyes to the parent state, so that their very turbulence and sedition should find vent in no other place than this!
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Edmund Burke
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Editor's note · Context
Burke suggests that it would be beneficial for the colonies to look to Britain for guidance, even in their dissent.
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