Edmund Burke: “Let the nations make war upon each other, (since we must make war,)…”

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Let the nations make war upon each other, (since we must make war,) not with a low and vulgar malignity, but by a competition of virtues.

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Edmund Burke

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Burke advocates for a noble competition among nations rather than petty malice in warfare.

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