There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear.


Two Letters Addressed to a Member of the Present Parliament, on the Proposals of Peace with the Regicide Directory of France (ed. 1796)

Edmund Burke Quotes

There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear.

There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear.

There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear.

There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear.