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For a time like ours, it is a great point gained, that people should be taught to meet, to combine, and to be classed and arrayed in some other way than in clubs of Jacobins.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke emphasizes the importance of teaching people to organize in ways other than radical clubs during tumultuous times.
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