On the recordJanuary 1, 1790
It seemed as if those who adopted such projects were wholly ignorant of their circumstances, or wholly unequal to their necessities.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke expresses his view that the French revolutionaries' financial projects revealed either their ignorance of the situation or their inability to address the nation's needs.
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