We cannot be blind to the advantage which such a party affords to Regicide France in all her views,--and, on the other hand, what an advantage Regicide France holds out to the views of the republican party in England.
Burke argues that the political factions in England benefit from their connection to revolutionary France.
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If any of them should happen to propose a scheme of liberty soberly limited, and defined with proper qualifications, he will be immediately outbid by his competitors, who will produce something more splendidly popular.
The improvements of the National Assembly are superficial, their errors fundamental.
Let us imitate their caution, if we wish to deserve their fortune or to retain their bequests.
They come from one who has been no tool of power, no flatterer of greatness, and who in his last acts does not wish to belie the tenor of his life.
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