Edmund Burke Quote

Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.


Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol (1777)


Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.

Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.

Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.

Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.