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Edmund Burke: America, he said, would never again see such happy days as she had passed under the protection of England.

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America, he said, would never again see such happy days as she had passed under the protection of England.
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Edmund Burke

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Burke relays Franklin's belief that America would not experience such prosperity again after separating from England.

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