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What a roundabout way is this to peace,--to make war for the destruction of regicides, and then to give them peace in order to insure a stability that will enable them to observe it!
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Edmund Burke
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Burke critiques the paradox of seeking peace through war against regicides, highlighting the irony in the approach to stability.
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