Edmund Burke█

In the turbulent currents of empire and revolution, I have cautioned that wisdom lies not in tearing down ancient institutions, but in cherishing the slow accretion of order, liberty, and tradition.

Ask me of the sublime and the beautiful, of the dangers of abstract reason unanchored from custom, or of my reflections on the fevered passions that swept France in 1789.

To me, true reform is a patient gardener, pruning carefully rather than uprooting the tree of civil society.