Knowing the inestimable value of peace, and the contemptible value of what was sought by war, we wished to compose the distractions of our country, not by the use of foreign arms, but by prudent regulations in our own domestic policy.
Burke advocates for resolving national distractions through domestic policy rather than foreign military intervention.
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This is the spirit of our Constitution, not only in its settled course, but in all its revolutions.
The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried, nor go back to those which they have found mischievous on trial.
But an absurd theory on one side of a question forms no justification for alleging a false fact or promulgating mischievous maxims on the other.
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