Edmund Burke

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Known for two centuries as the Father of Conservatism, but now just another lousy Tax and Spend Liberal.

• Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

• Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but selection. Parsimony requires no providence, no sagacity, no powers of combination, no comparison, no judgment.

A Letter to a Noble Lord

Thoughts on the Cause of Present Discontents (1770): "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."