The causes of a war are not matters of feeling, but of reason and foresight, and often of remote considerations, and of a very great combination of circumstances which they are utterly incapable of comprehending: and, indeed, it is not every man in the highest classes who is altogether equal to it.
Burke asserts that the reasons for war are often complex and beyond the comprehension of the general populace.
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To tell the people that they are relieved by the dilapidation of their public estate is a cruel and insolent imposition.
It is an evil inevitably attendant on the dominion of sovereign democratic republics.
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