The Portable Edmund Burke (Portable Library) - Plot & Excerpts
In a letter to some of his constituents Burke linked these concerns to his criticism of the government’s policies that had led to the war in America. Particularly interesting is Burke’s characteristic indictment of abstract and theoretical speculation in political affairs, alongside his plea for prudence, restraint, and moderation. I THINK I KNOW AMERICA—if I do not, my ignorance is incurable, for I have spared no pains to understand it—and I do most solemnly assure those of my constituents who put any sort of confidence in my industry and integrity, that everything that has been done there has arisen from a total misconception of the object: that our means of originally holding America, that our means of reconciling with it after quarrel, of recovering it after separation, of keeping it after victory, did depend, and must depend, in their several stages and periods, upon a total renunciation of that unconditional submission which has taken such possession of the minds of violent men.
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