The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment, is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and, when time is given to it, as a species, it always acts right.
— Edmund Burke Early Modern

Conservatism founder

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Speech on the Economical Reform

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1780

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Strange & Unusual

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https://archive.org/details/worksburke03burk/page/n371/mode/2up

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