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If ever there was a time that calls on us for no vulgar conception of things, and for exertions in no vulgar strain, it is the awful hour that Providence has now appointed to this nation.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke emphasizes the need for extraordinary efforts and thoughts in times of great national challenge.
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