You may have made a Revolution, but not a Reformation. You may have subverted Monarchy, but not recover'd freedom.
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Letter to Charles-Jean-François Depont (November 1789), quoted in Alfred Cobban and Robert A. Smith (eds.), The Correspondence of Edmund Burke, Volume VI: July 1789-December 1791 (1967), p. 46