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People talk of war or cry for peace: have they to the bottom considered the questions either of war or peace, upon the scale of the existing world?
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “People talk of war or cry for peace: have they to the bottom considered the questions either of war or peace, upon the…”
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Burke challenges the depth of people's understanding regarding the complexities of war and peace.
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