"I dread our own power and our own……" — Edmund Burke

I dread our own power and our own ambition; I dread our… - Edmund Burke
"I dread our own power and our own ambition; I dread our being too much dreaded....We may say that we shall not abuse this astonishing and hitherto unheard-of-power. But every other nation will think we shall abuse it. It is impossible but that, sooner or later, this state of things must produce a combination against us which may end in our ruin."

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