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A disposition to preserve and an ability to improve make a good statesman
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What Edmund Burke actually said
- Edmund Burke Irish-born British statesman and political philosopher (1729 to 1797)
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.
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↗Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)gutenberg.org
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