On the recordJanuary 1, 1790
Their cruelty has not even been the base result of fear.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “Their cruelty has not even been the base result of fear.”
Editor's note · Context
In his denunciation of the French Revolution, Burke asserts that the revolutionaries' cruelty was not born of fear but of something more sinister.
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