“ The people have no interest in disorder. When they do wrong, it is their error, and not their crime. ”
Edmund Burke, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770). copy citation
| Author | Edmund Burke |
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| Source | Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents |
| Topic | error crime |
| Date | 1770 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Thoughts_on_the_Cause_of_the_Present_Disc... |
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“Experience may perhaps justify me in going further. Where popular discontents have been very prevalent; it may well be affirmed and supported, that there has been generally something found amiss in the constitution, or in the conduct of Government. The people have no interest in disorder. When they do wrong, it is their error, and not their crime. But with the governing part of the State, it is far otherwise. They certainly may act ill by design, as well as by mistake. "Mem. de Sully, vol. I, p. 133.." These are the words of a great man; of a Minister of state;”
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