"Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion."
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
"Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither…is safe.
"The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse." (Edmund Burke)
Edmund Burke describes conservatism as an "approach to human affairs which mistrusts both a priori reasoning and revolution, preferring to put its trust in experience and in the gradual improvement of tried and tested arrangements." (Wikipedia) The Conservative Movement of America in the 20th and now 21st Century often times uses Edmund Burkes's philosophy as a MANTRA, for its existence. However, as I see it, the Modern-Day Conservatives in America, have truly never read some of the quotes, Mr. Burke had written, nor for that fact, I believe the current crop of Republicans in the House, don’t read much of anything unless it is written by Breibart or FOX.
"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression."
"Government...[has] no other object than the general happiness. When, instead of this, it operates to create and increase wretchedness in any of the parts of society, it is on a wrong system, and reformation is necessary."
"I become irritated at the attempt to govern mankind by force and fraud, as if they were all knaves and fools."
"Some writers have…confounded society with government…[but] Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices...The first is a patron, the last a punisher." (Thomas Paine)
Thomas Paine, the author of ‘Common Sense’, stated: Learn by Doing. ... Radical Decentralization. ... A Return to Common Sense… Pushing through Fear. ... Creating an Empathic Culture. (Google Search). It seems, that in the age of Trumpism, it is the Democrat Party that has embraced these ideals. As Mr. Paine stated this is Common Sense!
