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In France is the bank of deposit and the bank of circulation of all the pernicious principles that are forming in every state.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgIn France is the bank of deposit and the bank of circulation of all the pernicious principles that are forming in every state.
Burke critiques the spread of radical ideas originating from France during the revolutionary period.
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