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Quotation by Edmund Burke
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published in Works, vol. 2 (1899)A Letter to a Member of the National AssemblyA Letter to a Noble Lord (1796), repr. in Works, vol. 5 (1899)attributedA Vindication of Natural Society (1756), repr. in Works, vol. 1 (1865)Related Subjects
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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
Edmund Burke (1729–1797), Irish philosopher, statesman. Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790).
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