The leaders teach the people to abhor and reject all feodality as the barbarism of tyranny; and they tell them afterwards how much of that barbarous tyranny they are to bear with patience.
In his critique of the French Revolution, Burke highlights the hypocrisy of revolutionary leaders regarding feudalism.
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