The wisdom of every country, when properly exerted, is sufficient for all its purposes; and there could exist no more real occasion in England to have sent for a Dutch Stadtholder or a German Elector than there was in America to have done a similar thing.
Burke asserts that a nation's own wisdom is sufficient for governance, without needing foreign leaders.
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