I speak it emphatically, and with a desire that it should be marked,--in a long war; because, without such a war, no experience has yet told us that a dangerous power has ever been reduced to measure or to reason.
Burke emphasizes the necessity of a prolonged war to effectively address and contain a dangerous power.
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