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But good taste, manners, morals, religion, all fly, wherever the principles of Jacobinism enter; and we have no safety against them but in arms.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke warns that the principles of Jacobinism threaten good taste and morals, advocating for defense against such ideologies.
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