David Kim

“Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director, the regulator, the standard of them all. Metaphysics cannot live without definition; but prudence is cautious how she defines. Our courts cannot be more fearful in suffering fictitious cases to be brought before them for eliciting their determination on a point of law, than prudent moralists are in putting extreme and hazardous cases of conscience upon emergencies not existing.”
― Edmund Burke, Further Reflections on the Revolution in France

“The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.”
― Edmund Burke

“A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation. Without such means it might even risk the loss of that part of the constitution which it wished the most religiously to preserve.”
― Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France

“Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.”
― Edmund Burke