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You must submit your fasces to theirs, and at best be contented to follow with songs of gratulation, or invectives, according to your humor, the triumphal car of those great conquerors.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke critiques the expectation to follow powerful leaders without question, likening it to a triumphal procession.
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