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We believe it to be a rule without an exception, that the violence of…

Quote byThomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay · 1800–1859

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: 'Mirabeau', The Edinburgh Review (July 1832); in The Miscellaneous Writings of Lord Macaulay, Vol. II (1860), pp. 81-82.

English (original)

We believe it to be a rule without an exception, that the violence of a revolution corresponds to the degree of misgovemment which has produced that revolution.

— Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay

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