They endeavored to establish a distinction, by the belief of which they hoped to keep the spirit of murder safely bottled up and sealed for their own purposes, without endangering themselves by the fumes of the poison which they prepared for their enemies.
Burke describes the manipulative tactics of political factions to control violence for their own ends.
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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.
It is an evil inevitably attendant on the dominion of sovereign democratic republics.
The only difference among their financial factions is on the greater or the lesser quantity of assignats to be imposed on the public sufferance.
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