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Edmund Burke: “Both Revolutions profess liberty as their object; but in obtaining this object the one proceeds from anarchy to order…”

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Both Revolutions profess liberty as their object; but in obtaining this object the one proceeds from anarchy to order, the other from order to anarchy.
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Edmund Burke

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Burke contrasts the paths of two revolutions, one moving from anarchy to order and the other from order to anarchy.

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