Nothing can reconcile men to their proceedings and projects but the supposition that there is no third option between them and some tyranny as odious as can be furnished by the records of history or by the invention of poets.
Burke argues that the only way people can accept the revolutionary government's actions is by believing there is no alternative between their system and an equally terrible tyranny.
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