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As to the example to be learnt from the murder of Louis the Sixteenth, if a lesson to kings is not derived from his fate, I do not know whence it can come.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke argues that the murder of Louis XVI should serve as a clear lesson for kings regarding moderation.
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