There is nothing in the world really beneficial that does not lie within the reach of an informed understanding and a well-directed pursuit.
Edmund Burke: “There is nothing in the world really beneficial that does not lie within the reach of an informed understanding and a…”
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Burke emphasizes that true benefits are attainable through knowledge and directed effort.
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If any of them should happen to propose a scheme of liberty soberly limited, and defined with proper qualifications, he will be immediately outbid by his competitors, who will produce something more splendidly popular.
They will become flatterers instead of legislators,--the instruments, not the guides of the people.
Let us add, if we please, but let us preserve what they have left; and standing on the firm ground of the British Constitution, let us be satisfied to admire, rather than attempt to follow in their desperate flights, the aëronauts of…
Our people will find employment enough for a truly patriotic, free, and independent spirit, in guarding what they possess from violation.





