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• Early and provident fear is the mother of safety. -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Reflections on the Revolution in France, -- Speech on the Petition of the Unitarians, Vol.
  vii, p. 50...
• People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Reflections on the Revolution in France, Vol. iii, p. 274...
• You can never plan the future by the past. -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Reflections on the Revolution in France, -- Letter to a Member of the National Assembly, Vol.
  iv, p. 55...
• You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Reflections on the Revolution in France, Vol. iii, p. 277...
• Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Reflections on the Revolution in France, -- Letter i, On a Regicide Peace, Vol....
• Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Reflections on the Revolution in France, Vol. iii, p. 334...
• Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Reflections on the Revolution in France, Vol. iii, p. 335...
• The men of England,--the men, I mean, of light and leading in England.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Reflections on the Revolution in France, Vol. iii, p. 365...
• In their nomination to office they will not appoint to the exercise of authority as to a pitiful job, but as to a holy function.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Reflections on the Revolution in France, Vol. iii, p. 356...