One would think, that after an honest and necessary revolution (if they had a mind that theirs should pass for such) your masters would have imitated the virtuous policy of those who have been at the head of revolutions of that glorious character.
Burke suggests that revolutionary leaders should emulate virtuous policies of past successful revolutions.
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