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Declaiming on rebellion never added a bayonet or a charge of powder to your military force; but I am afraid that it has been the means of taking up many muskets against you.
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Edmund Burke
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Editor's note · Context
He critiques the rhetoric against rebellion, suggesting it may incite further violence rather than deter it.
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