Edmund Burke Quote

By this unprincipled facility of changing the state as often, and as much, and in as many ways as there are floating fancies or fashions, the whole chain and continuity of the commonwealth would be broken. No one generation could link with the other. Men would become little better than the flies of a summer.

Reflections on the Revolution in France... The fifth edition (ed. 1790)

By this unprincipled facility of changing the state as often, and as much, and in as many ways as there are floating fancies or fashions, the whole...

By this unprincipled facility of changing the state as often, and as much, and in as many ways as there are floating fancies or fashions, the whole...

By this unprincipled facility of changing the state as often, and as much, and in as many ways as there are floating fancies or fashions, the whole...

By this unprincipled facility of changing the state as often, and as much, and in as many ways as there are floating fancies or fashions, the whole...