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What security is there for stopping short at all in these wild conceits?
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “What security is there for stopping short at all in these wild conceits?”
Editor's note · Context
Burke questions the feasibility of stopping at a reasonable point in radical ideologies.
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