On the recordJanuary 1, 1790
They have made France free in the manner in which those sincere friends to the rights of mankind, the Romans, freed Greece, Macedon, and other nations.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “They have made France free in the manner in which those sincere friends to the rights of mankind, the Romans, freed…”
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With heavy sarcasm, Burke compares the French revolutionaries' method of "freeing" France to the Roman conquest and subjugation of other nations.
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