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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 3 (of 6)

CHAPTER I
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Order is always found in the agreement of the majority.

The minority is always guilty, I repeat it, even if it is morally right.
Nothing but common sense is needed to see that truth."-- Ibid.

(On the execution of Louis XVI.), p.447.

"Had the nation the right to condemn and execute him?
No thinking person can ask such a question.

The nation is everything in itself; its power is that which the whole human kind would have if but one nation, one single government governed the globe.


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