Society is indeed a contract... As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in… — Edmund Burke
Society is indeed a contract... As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
Reflections on the Revolution in France · 1790
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Burke, Edmund. "Reflections on the Revolution in France." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009.
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Burke, Edmund. Reflections on the Revolution in France. London: James Dodsley, 1790.
