"An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent."
— Edmund Burke

January 1, 1970

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Speech on the sixth article of charge in the impeachment of Warren Hastings (5 May 1789), quoted in The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume the Tenth (1899), p. 306