On the recordJanuary 1, 1790
This is a perpetual dilemma, into which they are thrown by the vicious, weak, and contradictory principles they have chosen.
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Edmund Burke
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Editor's note · Context
Burke asserts that the French revolutionaries are trapped in an unsolvable problem due to the inherently flawed and inconsistent principles they adopted.
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