A break has to be total on the issue but not total on the relationship — separating the regime from the people, the decision from the person.

The most disciplined sentence in the document. After pages of indictment, the authors refuse to make the enemy the British people — they separate the prince from the population, the regime from the nation. "They too, have been deaf" records the failure without hatred, and the closing formula keeps the future open: war is a condition, not an identity, and it ends. This is how you declare total political separation without declaring eternal enmity. It also shows the document's real audience discipline: the fight is with the Crown's power, and burning the bridge to the British people would have cost the very foreign sympathy the whole declaration was written to win.