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What I wish to insist upon is, not that that system was good, but that the statesman who undertook to overthrow it, should have had something to put in its place.
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John Morley
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gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Morley emphasizes the importance of having a viable alternative when dismantling an existing system.
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Turgot was one of the men to whom good government is a religion.
The omnipotent though not omniscient divinity called public opinion intervened.
This is no mere case of barren wrangle and verbal recrimination.
But we have no right to cast on him any responsibility beyond what is strictly military.
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