“ Every honest mind, every true lover of liberty and humanity, must rejoice to find that injustice is not always good policy, nor rapine the high road to riches. ”
Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790). copy citation
| Author | Edmund Burke |
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| Source | Reflections on the Revolution in France |
| Topic | humanity injustice |
| Date | 1790 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Reflections_on_the_Revolution_in_France |
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“prompt and zealous instruments in the ruin of their country! Never did a
state, in any case, enrich itself by the confiscations of the citizens.
This new experiment has succeeded like all the rest. Every honest mind,
every true lover of liberty and humanity, must rejoice to find that
injustice is not always good policy, nor rapine the high road to riches. I
subjoin with pleasure, in a note, the able and spirited observations of M.
de Calonne on this subject. [58]
In order to persuade the world of the bottomless resource of ecclesiastical
confiscation, the Assembly have proceeded to other confiscations of estates”
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