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The degree of danger is not only from the circumstances which threaten, but from the value of the objects which are threatened.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “The degree of danger is not only from the circumstances which threaten, but from the value of the objects which are…”
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Burke argues that the level of danger is determined not just by the threats themselves but by what is at stake.
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