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Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions. — Edmund Burke

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Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.

Edmund Burke
Reflections on the Revolution in France · 1790
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Burke, Edmund. "Reflections on the Revolution in France." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009.
Original citation
Burke, Edmund. Reflections on the Revolution in France. London: James Dodsley, 1790.

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