Showing posts with label Edmund Burke. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Edmund Burke. Show all posts

Sunday, October 7, 2007

Thus Spake...


The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.--Edmund Burke, Second Speech on Conciliation with America (1775)