The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone. (Edmund Burke)

The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone.

Edmund Burke

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