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Quotation from The Burke-Paine Debate on the French Revolution by Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine
“it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.”
The Burke-Paine Debate on the French Revolution, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), on the social contract and the Church establishment (The Works of Edmund Burke, vol. 3 (Nimmo), Project Gutenberg #15679; library text of reflections-on-the-revolution-in-france)
Burke redefines the social contract as a partnership across generations, the passage most directly opposed to Paine's claim for the rights of the living.
Citation: "it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born." — Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine, The Burke-Paine Debate on the French Revolution, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), on the social contract and the Church establishment (The Works of Edmund Burke, vol. 3 (Nimmo), Project Gutenberg #15679; library text of reflections-on-the-revolution-in-france). (id burke-paine-debate-q2)
Virtues: Piety
Portrait: Sir Joshua Reynolds - Edmund Burke, 1729 - 1797. Statesman, orator and author - PG 2362 - National Galleries of Scotland, Joshua Reynolds, Public domain.
