“ Men who have an interest to pursue are extremely sagacious in discovering the true seat of power. ”
Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790). copy citation
| Author | Edmund Burke |
|---|---|
| Source | Reflections on the Revolution in France |
| Topic | power interest |
| Date | 1790 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Reflections_on_the_Revolution_in_France |
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“other and to the whole, remain as they are. You seem to have given the
provisional nomination of the officers in the first instance to the king,
with a reserve of approbation by the National Assembly. Men who have an
interest to pursue are extremely sagacious in discovering the true seat of
power. They must soon perceive that those who can negative indefinitely in
reality appoint. The officers must, therefore, look to their intrigues in
that Assembly as the sole certain road to promotion. Still, however, by”
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