So violent an outrage upon credit, property, and liberty, as this compulsory paper currency, has seldom been exhibited by the alliance of bankruptcy and tyranny, at any time, or in any nation.
Critiquing the financial policies of the French Revolution, Burke describes the compulsory paper currency as an extreme violation of credit, property, and liberty, unprecedented in history.
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