So far as it has gone, it probably is the most pure and defecated publick good which ever has been conferred on mankind.

— Edmund Burke An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs (1791)

Notes from Wikiquote

On the Polish Constitution of May 3, 1791

Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770)

Speech at a County Meeting of Buckinghamshire (1784)

A Letter to a Member of the National Assembly (1791)

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