I am certain that the ministers were then, and are now, invested with the fullest confidence of the major part of the nation, to pursue such measures of peace or war as the nature of things shall suggest as most adapted to the public safety.
Burke expresses confidence in the ministers' ability to act in the nation's best interest regarding peace or war.
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