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Burke's call to action went unheeded, and the American Revolution began. Still appealing to his perennial belief in the
superiority of the Parliamentary system of government, he pled with the House, "As long as you have the wisdom to
keep the sovereign authority of this country as the sanctuary of liberty, the sacred temple consecrated to our common
faith, wherever the chosen race and sons of England worship freedom, they will turn their faces towards you. The more
they multiply, the more friends you will have; the more ardently they love liberty, the more perfect will be their
obedience. Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil. They may have it from Spain, they
may have it from Prussia. But, until you become lost to all feeling of your true interest and your natural dignity, freedom
they can have from none but you." Despite his wise words, the English still sought to enslave the colonies, thereby
losing America.
In lines 36-49, the author quotes Burke's speech to Parliament primarily to emphasize the fact that:
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