...political mass, for the purpose of originating a new civil order out of the first elements of society. A state without the means of some change is without...its conservation. Without such means it might even risque the loss of that part of the constitution which it wished the most religiously to preserve....

...continuamente a vicisitudes y desasiegos. Victorian de Villaba, "Apuntes para una reforma de Espafia" A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation. Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France Reform Without Rupture In retrospect, Bourbon...

...areas the things we have taken to ourselves are seen as being under threat, and the alarm bells ring. 'A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation. ' Edmund Burke 'Sacramental space is space which "remembers " the life of the Christian community'...

...France (Oxford: Oxford University Press / World Classics, 1993), especially pp. 21-23. Burke writes: "A state without the means of some change is without...its conservation. Without such means it might even risque the loss of that part of the constitution which it wished the most religiously to preserve."...

...established order', and Conservatives have concluded that it may often prove necessary to accept change, for 'a state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation' (Burke 1968: 106). Consequently, Conservatism resembles - as Sir Ian Gilmour once put it - 'an archeological...

...1904:169. 5 Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. Speech at the Guildhall in Bristol (1780) 1904:395. e A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation. Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) 1865:259. 7 People will not look forward to posterity,...

...BRITISH POLITICS Edmund Burke reminded his readers in the Reflections on the Revolution in France that A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.' Echoing this view during the parliamentary debates on the reform of the franchise in 1831, Macaulay...

...tradition was essential - he refers to 'the wisdom of nations and of ages' - but equally he believed that 'a state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation'80. The New Whigs favoured pragmatism and moderation, opposing dogmatism, doctrinaire...

...was, in a certain sense, the Burkean figure of his generation — following Edmund Burke's maxim that, "a state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation."66 Lincoln finally achieved both the moral goal of ending slavery and his personal goal...

...Revolution in France (Oxford: Oxford University Press/ World Classics, 1993) esp. 21-23. Burke writes: "A state without the means of some change is without...which it wished the most religiously to preserve." 34. The Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939 is perhaps the classic example of a civil conflict where the...