The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
— Edmund Burke Early Modern

Conservatism founder

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Speech on Conciliation with America

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1775

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https://www.gutenberg.org/files/15679/15679-h/15679-h.htm

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