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Sometimes they have got a body of wretches, calling themselves fathers, to demand the murder of their sons, boasting that Rome had but one Brutus, but that they could show five hundred.
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Edmund Burke
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Editor's note · Context
Burke highlights the shocking betrayal of familial bonds during the Revolution, where fathers call for the death of their sons.
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