You will employ it with more grace, with better effect, and with great probable concurrence of all the quiet and rational people in the provinces, who are now united with and hurried away by the violent,--having, indeed, different dispositions, but a common interest.
Burke emphasizes the importance of employing strength wisely to gain support from rational people amid chaos.
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