...Samsons of the Nixon Administration, we need to bring the prudent words of Edmund Burke, who advised, "// is with infinite caution that any man ought to venture...edifice, which has answered in any tolerable degree . . . the conmon purposes of society."10 Burke was, of course, referring to the "edifice" of the State,...

...practical purposes — a matter which requires experience, and even more experience than any person can gain in his whole life, however sagacious and...society, or on building it up again without having 53 models and patterns of approved utility before his eyes. These metaphysic rights entering into common...

...Burke said. It is not so much that the past is always worth preserving, he argued, but rather that *it is with infinite caution that any man ought to...any tolerable degree for ages the common purposes "Petitioner concedes that it would be virtually impossible for the prosecutor in this case to recall...

...unique nature of a government that has kept us free for more than 200 years. Edmund Burke once wrote: It is with infinite caution that any man ought to...tolerable degree for ages the common purposes of society." It is a warning worth remembering. SO Policy Review WE DON'T JUST REPORT THE NEWS. WE MAKE NEWS. On...

...nature of a government that has kept us free for more than 200 years. Edmund Burke once wrote: "lt is with infinite caution that any man ought to venture...tolerable degree for ages the common purposes of society." It is a warning worth remembering. Policy Review WE DON'T JUST REPORT THE NEWS. WE MAKE NEWS. On ibc...

...experience even than any person can gain in his whole life," it should definitely be imprudent to "pull down an edifice which has answered in any tolerable degree for ages the common purposes of society" (p. 59). On the Aristotelian version of this criticism of a politics deduced from theory, see Pierre...

...As the political philosopher Edmund Burke once wrote, "(IJt is with infinite caution that any mar. ought to venture upon pulling down an edifice, which has answered in any tolerable degree forages the common purposes of society, or on building it up again, without having models and patterns...

...which they did not hold.) As Burke justified his conservatism: "it is with infinite caution that a man ought to venture upon pulling down an edifice...tolerable degree for ages the common purposes of society" (R: 70). This is especially apt when some considerable degree of freedom has been enjoyed: "...to form...

...which they did not hold.) As Burke justified his conservatism: "il is with infinite caution that a man ought to venture upon pulling down an edifice which has answered in any tolerable degree forages the common purposes of society" (R: 70). This is especially apt when some considerable degree...

...can gain in his whole life." Therefore, great caution must be exercised by anyone who would venture "pulling down an edifice, which has answered in any...tolerable degree for ages the common purposes of society" i1790:209). The leaders of the French Revolution were, in Burke's view, "so taken up with their theories...