But, as Edmund Burke said, leaders have another duty to give voters the benefit of their best judgement.
What is supposed to have prompted Ferguson to these meditations was a question comparing Keynes to Edmund Burke.
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But his generous imagination was equally capable of appreciating the prose of a conservative thinker like Edmund Burke.
The classic answer to this question comes from the Tory patriarch Edmund Burke in his 1774 Speech to the Electors of Bristol.
As the great modern conservative Edmund Burke taught, the act of governing - indeed, "every human benefit and enjoyment" - requires compromise.
Armstrong later wrote a letter to the Times newspaper in which he said he derived the phrase from 18th Century statesman Edmund Burke.
On one recent morning he quoted Edmund Burke to a group of high-school students and Winston Churchill to workers at a titanium-processing plant.
Finally, to paraphrase the almost 300 year-old wisdom of Edmund Burke, the only way for evil to triumph is for good men and women to do nothing.
Skip forward four centuries and Edmund Burke, pondering how the French queen came to have been left unprotected from the revolutionary mob, was perhaps one of the first to declare chivalry to be dead.
This is the flexible Conservatism of Benjamin Disraeli, a 19th-century prime minister, combining his awareness of the needs and votes of the lower classes with the gradualism of Edmund Burke, who articulated Tory alarm at the French Revolution.
Instead, conservatives would argue that education, earned success and the all-important mediating institutions -- families, churches, communities, private and philanthropic enterprises, associations of coaches, teachers, parents, doctors, civil servants and religious and non-religious volunteers, the Boy Scouts and other worthy mentoring groups, all what Edmund Burke called the "little platoons" that make up healthy civil society -- are the pillars of upward mobility.
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