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They had gloried (and some people in England had thought fit to take share in that glory) in making a Revolution, as if revolutions were good things in themselves.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “They had gloried (and some people in England had thought fit to take share in that glory) in making a Revolution, as if…”
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Burke argues that revolutions are not inherently positive and critiques those who glorify them.
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