On the recordJanuary 1, 1790
Is what remains of the plundered stock of public revenue to be employed in the wild project of maintaining two armies to watch over and to fight with each other?
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Edmund Burke
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From his critique of the French Revolution, Burke questions the financial mismanagement and internal conflict within the new French government.
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