3 Edmund Burke Quotes on Reform

Edmund Burke quotes on reform

12. Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

24. So far as it has gone, it probably is the most pure and defecated publick good which ever has been conferred on mankind.

111. 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.