"Out of the tomb of the murdered Monarchy in France, has arisen a vast, tremendous, unformed spectre, in a far more terrific guise than any which ever yet have overpowered the imagination and subdued the fortitude of man."
— French Revolution

January 1, 1970

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Edmund Burke, Two Letters Addressed to a Member of the Present Parliament, on the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory of France (1796), quoted in Burke: Select Works. Four Letters on the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory of France, ed. E. J. Payne (1892), p. 7