I have therefore been decidedly of opinion, with our declaration at Whitehall in the beginning of this war, that the vicinage of Europe had not only a right, but an indispensable duty and an exigent interest, to Denunciate this new work, before it had produced the danger we have so sorely felt, and which we shall long feel.
"The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. V. (of 12)"
Edmund Burke