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October 18, 2005
a disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve...
A man full of warm speculative benevolence may wish his society otherwise constituted than he finds it: 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.
Edmund Burke
Posted by amin at October 18, 2005 10:01 PM
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