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“And first of all, the science of jurisprudence, the pride of the human intellect, which with all its defects, redundancies, and errors is the collected reason of ages, combining the principles of original justice with the infinite variety of human concerns, as a heap of old exploded errors, would be no longer studied. Personal self-sufficiency and arrogance (the certain attendants upon all those who have never experienced a wisdom greater than their own) would usurp the tribunal. Of course, no certain laws, establishing invariable grounds of hope and fear, would keep the actions of men in a certain course or direct them to a certain end. Nothing stable in the modes of holding property or exercising function could form a solid ground on which any parent could speculate in the education of his offspring or in a choice for their future establishment in the world. No principles would be early worked into the habits. As soon as the most able instructor had completed his laborious course of institution, instead of sending forth his pupil, accomplished in a virtuous discipline, fitted to procure him attention and respect in his place in society, he would find everything altered, and that he had turned out a poor creature to the contempt and derision of the world, ignorant of the true grounds of estimation. Who would insure a tender and delicate sense of honor to beat almost with the first pulses of the heart when no man could know what would be the test of honor in a nation continually varying the standard of its coin? No part of life would retain its acquisitions. Barbarism with regard to science and literature, unskilfulness with regard to arts and manufactures, would infallibly succeed to the want of a steady education and settled principle; and thus the commonwealth itself would, in a few generations, crumble away, be disconnected into the dust and powder of individuality, and at length dispersed to all the winds of heaven.”
― Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France

“The moment you abate anything from the full rights of men, each to govern himself, and suffer any artificial, positive limitation upon those rights, from that moment the whole organization of government becomes a consideration of convenience. This it is which makes the constitution of a state and the due distribution of its powers a matter of the most delicate and complicated skill. It requires a deep knowledge of human nature and human necessities, and of the things which facilitate or obstruct the various ends which are to be pursued by the mechanism of civil institutions. The state is to have recruits to its strength, and remedies to its distempers. What is the use of discussing a man's abstract right to food or medicine? The question is upon the method of procuring and administering them. In that deliberation I shall always advise to call in the aid of the farmer and the physician rather than the professor of metaphysics.

The science of constructing a commonwealth, or renovating it, or reforming it, is, like every other experimental science, not to be taught a priori. Nor is it a short experience that can instruct us in that practical science, because the real effects of moral causes are not always immediate...”
― Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France

“Amerikan dış politikasında "Manifest Destiny" (Aşikar Alın Yazısı/Önlenemez Kader) olarak adlandırılan bu inancın kökleri daha da eskiye gitmekle
birlikte kavram 1845'te gazeteci john O'Sullivan tarafından New York gazetesindeki bir makalede kullanılması ile popüler hale geldi. Bu inanca göre; sınırlarını Kuzey Amerika kıtası boyunca genişletmesi ve buralardaki insanlara Hristiyanlık öğretilerini ve demokrasiyi götürmesi Amerika'ya Tanrı tarafından verilmiş bir hak ve görevdi. Amerikan Başkanlarının çoğu konuşmalarında bu vurguyu kullanmışlardır.”
― Selin M. Bölme, İncirlik Üssü: ABD’nin Üs Politikası ve Türkiye

“still as you rise, the state, exalted too,
finds no distemper whilst 'tis chang'd by you
chang'd like the world's great scene , when without noise
the rising sun night's vulgar lights destroys”
― edmund burke