Carolina QuotesThe mass of mankind, Burke implies, reason hardly at all, in the higher sense, nor ever can: deprived of folk-wisdom and folk-law, which are prejudice and prescription, they can do no more than cheer the demagogue, enrich the charlatan, and submit to the despot.
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- The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot (1953)
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- 1953
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