On the record
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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gutenberg.orgIt will tend totally to remove from their minds that very terror of a civil war which is held out as our sole security.
Burke claims that the fear of civil war is a false security.
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