Reflections on the Revolution in France

[The Lawspeaker]

Reflections on the Revolution in France

by

Edmund Burke





Thank you, Loddfarner.

[Joe McCarthy]

I like what Burke had to say about the circumstances needed to justify revolution, and it's very compelling as he was an anti-revolutionary writer:

The speculative line of demarcation where obedience ought to end and resistance must begin is faint, obscure, and not easily definable. It is not a single act, or a single event, which determines it. Governments must be abused and deranged, indeed, before it can be thought of; and the prospect of the future must be as bad as the experience of the past.

It seems to me that even by Burke's rigid standard, revolution would be justified today.