It is, however, out of these, or of such as these, guilty and impenitent, despising the experience of others, and their own, that some people talk of choosing their negotiators with those Jacobins who they suppose may be recovered to a sounder mind.
Burke warns against the folly of negotiating with those who remain unrepentant for their past actions.
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