...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...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...

...eighteenth-century English philosopher and statesman Edmund Burke captured this traditional conservative attitude: "[I]t 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,...

...gain in his whole life, however sagacious and observing he may be, it is with infinite caution than 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,...

...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...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...

...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...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...

...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...to venture upon pulling down an edifice which has answered in any tolerable degree for ages the common purposes of society, or building it up again,...

...of new forces into venerable institutions. In his Reflections on the Revolution in France he wrote: "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...

...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...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,...

...matter which requires experience and even more experience than any person can gain in his whole life, 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 purpose of society." "They who destroy everything...