The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, volume 5
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, volume 5
Edmund Burke
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They have uniformly acted on this right. What in civil society is a ground of action in politic society is a ground of war. But the exercise of that com- petent jurisdiction is a matter of moral prudence. As suits in civil society, so war in the political, must ever be a matter of great deliberation. It is not this or that particular proceeding, picked out here and there, as a subject of quarrel, that will do. There must be an aggregate of mischief. There must be marks of deliberation ; there m...ust be traces of de- sign; there must be indications of malice; there must be tokens of ambition. There must be force in the body where they exist ; there must be energy in the mind. When all these circumstances combine, or the important parts of them, the duty of the vicin- 9 «Thif state of things cannot exist in France^ without involying all the svrronnding powers in one common danger, — without giving them the right, without imposing it upon ihem as a dnt]r» to stop the progress of an eril which ....
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