On the recordJanuary 1, 1790
But you, who began with refusing to submit to the most moderate restraints, have ended by establishing an unheard-of despotism.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke criticizes the French revolutionaries for rejecting moderate restraints only to establish an unprecedented despotism.
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