On the recordJanuary 1, 1791
No plot was formed against them; they were plotting against others; and those who fell, met, not unjustly, the punishment they were preparing to execute.
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Thomas Paine
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In his critique of Edmund Burke, Paine argues that those who fell during the French Revolution were justly punished for their own plots against the people.
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