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We all know that the sense of the nation obliged the court of Charles the Second to abandon the Dutch war: a war, next to the present, the most impolitic which we ever carried on.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke recalls that national sentiment forced the abandonment of an impolitic war against the Dutch.
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