He does not deserve the name of a free man who will not express them.
Edmund Burke: “He does not deserve the name of a free man who will not express them.”
Editor's note · Context
Continuing his condemnation of the French Revolution's excesses, Burke declares that a free man has a duty to express his indignation at injustice.
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