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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
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NUMBER:
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1765 |
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AUTHOR:
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Edmund Burke (1729–97) |
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QUOTATION:
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But a good patriot, and a true politician, always considers how he shall make the most of the existing materials of his country. 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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ATTRIBUTION:
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EDMUND BURKE, “Reflections on the Revolution in France,” 1790, The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, vol. 3, p. 440 (1899). |
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SUBJECTS:
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Statesman |
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