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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

Edmund Burke
Change, Mean, Diversity
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Edmund Burke
Inspirational, Friendship, Change
Edmund Burke (1963). “Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.316, Transaction Publishers

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
Change, Summer, Fashion
Edmund Burke (2005). “Burke, Select Works”, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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