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Revolutions
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A stomach without bread and a purse without gold have led to so many revolutions in history.
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Burke's complaint against the [(French)] revolutionaries was that they assumed the right to spend all trusts and endowments on their own self-made emergency. Schools, church foundations, hospitals - all institutions that had been founded by people, now dead, for the benefit of their successors - were expropriated or destroyed, the result being the total waste of accumulated savings, leading to massive inflation, the collapse of education and the loss of the traditional forms of social and medica
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― Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition
― Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition
