On the recordJanuary 1, 1790
Not one drop of their blood have they shed in the cause of the country they have ruined.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “Not one drop of their blood have they shed in the cause of the country they have ruined.”
Editor's note · Context
Burke criticizes the French Revolutionaries for causing their country's ruin without shedding any of their own blood in the process.
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