These Regicides considered a Regicide peace as a cure for all their evils; and so far as I can find, they showed nothing at all of the timidity which the noble lord apprehends in what they call the just cause of liberty.
Burke critiques the belief that a peace achieved through regicide can solve societal issues.
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