Edmund Burke Quotes on Reform
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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So far as it has gone, it probably is the most pure and defecated publick good which ever has been conferred on mankind.
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A man full of warm, speculative benevolence may wish his society otherwise constituted than he finds it, but a good patriot and a true politician always considers how he shall make the most of the existing materials of his country. A disposition to preserve and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman. Everything else is vulgar in the conception, perilous in the execution.