“They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the Rights of Man.”

— Edmund Burke

On the Army Estimates (9 February 1790)
1790s

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Anglo-Irish statesman 1729–1797

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“They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the Rights of Man.”

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