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Edmund Burke: All rewards, all distinctions, are in other hands.

On the recordJanuary 1, 1790
All rewards, all distinctions, are in other hands.
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Edmund Burke

Editor's note · Context

From his critique of the French Revolution, Burke notes that the power to bestow rewards and distinctions has been entirely removed from the king.

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