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"A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation."

— Burke, Edmund event 1790

From Reflections on the Revolution in France

Context: From 'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790), arguing that institutions must be able to reform gradually or they risk being destroyed outright

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