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Without doubt, good intentions made the majority of the Assembly adopt it; they would plant the tree of liberty in a foreign soil, under the shade of a people already free.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke critiques the misguided intentions of those who sought to spread liberty without understanding the local context.
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