On the recordJanuary 1, 1790
The invention of those juvenile pretenders to liberty was in reality nothing more than a servile imitation of one of the poorest resources of doting despotism.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke critiques the French revolutionaries' financial schemes, asserting they were not innovative but rather poor imitations of despotic practices.
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