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In general, they rather approve than blame the principles of the rioters, though the better sort of them are afraid of the consequences of those very principles which they approve.
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Edmund Burke
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Editor's note · Context
Burke notes that while the public may approve of the rioters' principles, they fear the consequences of those principles.
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