On the recordJanuary 1, 1790
The only difference among their financial factions is on the greater or the lesser quantity of assignats to be imposed on the public sufferance.
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Edmund Burke
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Editor's note · Context
Burke observes that the French revolutionary factions only differ on the quantity of paper money to be issued, not on the flawed principle itself.
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