On the recordJanuary 1, 1790
The members of your Assembly must themselves groan under the tyranny of which they have all the shame, none of the direction, and little of the profit.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke suggests that even the members of the French National Assembly suffer under the tyrannical system they have created.
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