A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
Edmund Burke
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And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. To avoid that evil, government will redouble the causes of it; and then it will become inveterate and incurable.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
- Edmund Burke