The several sectaries in this schism of the Jacobins are the very last men in the world to trust each other.
Edmund Burke: “The several sectaries in this schism of the Jacobins are the very last men in the world to trust each other.”
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Burke notes the inherent distrust among factions within the Jacobin movement.
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