Quotation of the Day…

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… is this nugget of deep and timeless wisdom found on pages 362-363 of the 1999 Liberty Fund edition of Edmund Burke’s 1790 Reflections on the Revolution in France:

I do not deny that among an infinite number of acts of violence and folly, some good may have been done. They who destroy everything certainly will remove some grievance. They who make everything new, have a chance that they may establish something beneficial. To give them credit for what they have done in virtue of the authority they have usurped, or which can excuse them in the crimes by which that authority has been acquired, it must appear, that the same things could not have been accomplished without producing such a revolution.