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The whole of those maxims upon which we have made and continued this war must be abandoned.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “The whole of those maxims upon which we have made and continued this war must be abandoned.”
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Burke argues that the foundational principles guiding the war must be reconsidered and potentially abandoned.
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