Edmund Burke: “All the props of society would be drawn from us by these doctrines…”

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All the props of society would be drawn from us by these doctrines, and the very foundations of the public defence would give way in an instant.

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Edmund Burke

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Burke expresses concern that the doctrines of the Jacobins threaten the very foundations of society and public defense.

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