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War suspends the rules of moral obligation, and what is long suspended is in danger of being totally abrogated.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “War suspends the rules of moral obligation, and what is long suspended is in danger of being totally abrogated.”
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Burke asserts that war undermines moral obligations, risking their complete dissolution.
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