Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Edmund Burke
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About Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke was an Anglo-Irish writer, philosopher, and politician who is widely credited as the founder of the cultural and political philosophy of conservatism. Regarded as one of the most influential conservative thinkers and political writers of the 18th century, Burke spent the majority of his career in Great Britain and was elected as a member of Parliament (MP) from 1766 to 1794 in the House of Commons of Great Britain with the Whig Party. His writings played a significant role in influ…
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Edmund BurkeA State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
Beauty is the promise of happiness.
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.