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Edmund Burke: “The necessity of the resistance at the Revolution was at that time obvious to every man.”

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The necessity of the resistance at the Revolution was at that time obvious to every man.
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Edmund Burke

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Burke claims that the necessity for resistance during the Revolution was clear to everyone at the time.

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