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Quotation by Edmund Burke
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Edmund Burke (79)Additional Sources
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
life (10) time (7) future, the (6) self (5) death (5) progress (5) freedom (5) government (4) war (4) poets (4)
By this unprincipled facility of changing the state as often, and as much, and in as many ways as there are floating fancies or fashions, the whole chain and continuity of the commonwealth would be broken. No one generation could link with the other. Men would become little better than the flies of a summer.
Edmund Burke (1729–1797), Irish Protestant political writer. Reflections on the Revolution in France, p. 83, Pocock (1790).
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