“There is a sort of enthusiasm in all projectors, absolutely necessary for their affairs, which makes them proof against the most fatiguing delays, the most mortifying disappointments, the most shocking insults; and, what is severer than all, the presumptuous judgement of the ignorant upon their designs.”
More from Edmund Burke
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“A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.”
“Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil.”
“Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.”