Jeff Duncan: “the current issue of the American Conservative Magazine has an article by Owen Harries that says, quote: ``In the 1770s…”

“the current issue of the American Conservative Magazine has an article by Owen Harries that says, quote: ``In the 1770s, when Britain had recently added North America and India to its Empire, when its economy was the strongest in the world, when it ruled the seas, it occupied a position not too different from the one occupied by the United States today.'' Then the great statesman, Edmund Burke, godfather of conservatism, issued this warning: ``Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take precautions against our own. I must fairly say, I dread our own power and our own ambition. I dread our being too much dreaded. We must say that we shall not abuse this astonishing and hitherto unheard of power.'' Edmund Burke continued, ``But every other nation will think we shall abuse it. It is impossible but that sooner or later this state of things must produce a combination against us which may end in our ruin.'' Mr. Speaker, we should consider these words of Edmund Burke today.”