The time is fitted for the duty; and it is particularly becoming to show our justice and gratitude, when those who have deserved well of us and of mankind are laboring under popular obloquy and the persecutions of oppressive power.
In his critique of the French Revolution, Burke argues for the importance of demonstrating justice and gratitude towards those who are unjustly persecuted.
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