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“lie together in one short sentence: namely, that we have acquired a right 1. "To choose our own governors." 2. "To cashier them for misconduct." 3. "To frame a government for ourselves." This new, and hitherto unheard-of bill of rights,”
― The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03
― The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03
“They are subject to envy, and through envy to oppression. On the present scheme it is impossible to divine what advantage they derive from the aristocratic preference upon which the unequal representation of the masses is founded.”
― The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03
― The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03
“The core of the anarchist tradition, as I understand it, is that power is always illegitimate, unless it proves itself to be legitimate. So the burden of proof is always on those who claim that some authoritarian hierarchic relation is legitimate. If they can’t prove it, then it should be dismantled.”
― On Anarchism
― On Anarchism
“It must be represented, too, in great masses of accumulation, or it is not rightly protected. The characteristic essence of property, formed out of the combined principles of its acquisition and conservation, is to be unequal. The great masses, therefore, which excite envy, and tempt rapacity, must be put out of the possibility of danger. Then they form a natural rampart about the lesser properties in all their gradations. The same quantity of property which is by the natural”
― The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03
― The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03
“The science of government being, therefore, so practical in itself, and intended for such practical purposes, a matter which requires experience, and even more experience than any person can gain in his whole life, however sagacious and observing he may be, it is with infinite caution that any man ought to venture upon pulling down an edifice which has answered in any tolerable degree for ages the common purposes of society, or on building it up again without having models and patterns of approved utility before his eyes.”
― The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03
― The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03
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