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Edmund Burke

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Edmund Burke · 1729–1797

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“The man who wrote the founding book of conservatism spent his whole career fighting the powerful — for America, for Ireland, for India — because his one constant enemy was arbitrary power, in whatever costume it wore.”
— The Great Philosophers, Ch. 158

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“A society is a partnership between the dead, the living, and the unborn — so real reform works with inherited institutions, prudently, and never hands unlimited power to anyone armed only with a theory.”
— The Great Philosophers, Ch. 158

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