On the record
To prevent the mischievous doctrines of the latter from corrupting our minds, matter and argument have been supplied abundantly, and even to surfeit, on the excellency of our own government.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke discusses the abundance of arguments defending the government while warning against the corrupting influence of Jacobin ideas.
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