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visionary politicians. The business of those, who are called to administer it, is to rule, and not to wrangle. It would be a poor compensation, that one had triumphed in a dispute, whilst we had lost an empire;^[1] that we had frittered down a power, and at the same time had destroyed the republic.

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1. Burke's Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol in 1777.