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It cannot be too often and too strongly inculcated, that monarchy and property must, in France, go together, or neither can exist.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “It cannot be too often and too strongly inculcated, that monarchy and property must, in France, go together, or neither…”
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Burke argues that monarchy and property must coexist in France for either to survive, highlighting their interdependence.
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