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A state that cannot change cannot preserve itself
Drawn from what Edmund Burke said
What Edmund Burke actually said
- Edmund Burke Irish-born British statesman and political philosopher (1729 to 1797)
A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
Where this was said
↗Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)gutenberg.org
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