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But allowing this, we are led to a very natural question:--What is that cause of liberty, and what are those exertions in its favor, to which the example of France is so singularly auspicious?
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Edmund Burke
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Burke questions the nature of liberty and the efforts needed to achieve it, particularly in light of the French example.
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