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A 4 page overview of the perceptions of Edmund Burke, Maximillien Robespierre, and Thomas
Paine. The author of this paper emphasizes the opinions of Thomas Pain and asserts that revolutions do no necessarily result in long-term
instability and violence. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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as to what long term impacts revolutions have on peoples and cultures. Edmund Burke feared revolutions believing that they had a tendency to give the people a taste for
violence and war, that the people would never be able to return to the stability they had prior to a revolution. The Jacobian leader Maximillien Robespierre countered that the new
government that evolved in a revolution could, in fact, be used to overcome any such tendency to engage in continual warfare that the people might have after a revolution.
Robespierre believed that new cultures resulted with revolution and that the evolution of that culture allowed not just liberation of the people from the traditions of the past but a
consolidation of the people into more of a cohesive unit. Thomas Pain had yet another opinion of revolutions, opinions that he reiterated time and time again and in doing
so inspired a nation. In fact, he inspired both France and the U.S. In many ways it could be contended
that Pain changed the course of colonial history through decisive and forceful roles in a time when there was little overall direction in our government and our policies. His
role extended through the years preceding the American Revolution and on into the early years of our independence. His fight was not so much on the battlefield, however, as
it was in formulating and refining the political ideology which would ultimately endure into contemporary times. The political ideology Paine was to unleash in his support of colonial rebellion
against England, however, would serve the cornerstone of his subsequent support of the French Revolution as well. That these three men
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