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Edmund Burke: We have seen it; the world has felt it; and if the world will shut their eyes to this state of things, they will feel it…

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We have seen it; the world has felt it; and if the world will shut their eyes to this state of things, they will feel it more.
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Edmund Burke

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Burke calls for awareness of the dire state of affairs that the world has witnessed and may ignore at its peril.

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