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It is our deliberate opinion that the French Revolution, in spite of…

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

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: 'Sir James Mackintosh', The Edinburgh Review (July 1835); in Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to The Edinburgh Review, Vol. II (1843), p. 215.

English (original)

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

— Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay

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