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That this cause of theirs was not an enemy to servitude, but to society.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “That this cause of theirs was not an enemy to servitude, but to society.”
Editor's note · Context
Burke argues that the revolutionary cause is not against servitude but rather against the very fabric of society.
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