"It is our deliberate opinion that the French Revolution, in spite of all its crimes and follies, was a great blessing to mankind."
— French Revolution

January 1, 1970

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Thomas Babington Macaulay, 'Sir James Mackintosh', The Edinburgh Review (July 1835), quoted in T. B. Macaulay, Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to The Edinburgh Review, Vol. II (1843), p. 215