Those monsters employed the same or greater industry to desecrate and degrade that state, which other legislators have used to render it holy and honorable.
Edmund Burke: “Those monsters employed the same or greater industry to desecrate and degrade that state, which other legislators have…”
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Burke criticizes the destructive actions of the French Revolution's leaders against the state.
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