On the recordJanuary 1, 1790
The army will not long look to an Assembly acting through the organ of false show and palpable imposition.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “The army will not long look to an Assembly acting through the organ of false show and palpable imposition.”
Editor's note · Context
In his critique of the French Revolution, he predicts that the army will eventually lose respect for an Assembly that governs through pretense.
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