On the recordJanuary 1, 1790
All the struggle, all the dissension, arose afterwards, upon the preference of a despotic democracy to a government of reciprocal control.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke argues that the true conflict in the French Revolution emerged from the choice between a despotic democracy and a balanced government.
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