To innovate is not to reform.
From Edmund Burke
The march of the human mind is slow.
A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.
The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
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