On the recordJanuary 1, 1790
They see no merit in the good, and no fault in the vicious management of public affairs; they rather rejoice in the latter, as more propitious to revolution.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke describes a type of political actor who finds no merit in good governance and rejoices in bad management, seeing it as conducive to revolution.
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