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Edmund Burke: It will tend totally to remove from their minds that very terror of a civil war which is held out as our sole security.

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It will tend totally to remove from their minds that very terror of a civil war which is held out as our sole security.
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Edmund Burke

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Burke claims that the fear of civil war is a false security.

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