“ No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity. ”
Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790). copy citation
| Author | Edmund Burke |
|---|---|
| Source | Reflections on the Revolution in France |
| Topic | fidelity injustice |
| Date | 1790 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Reflections_on_the_Revolution_in_France |
Context
“and it can have no public estate except in what it
derives from a just and proportioned imposition upon the citizens at large.
This was engaged, and nothing else could be engaged, to the public
creditor. No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.
It is impossible to avoid some observation on the contradictions caused by
the extreme rigor and the extreme laxity of this new public faith which
influenced in this transaction, and which influenced not according to the”
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