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Quotation from Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke

“People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.”

Edmund Burke

Reflections on the Revolution in France, Early pages, on liberty as an entailed inheritance (Nimmo edition of Burke's Works, vol. 3, Project Gutenberg text)

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Part of the argument that the English claim their liberties as an inheritance from Magna Carta onward.

Citation: "People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors." — Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, Early pages, on liberty as an entailed inheritance (Nimmo edition of Burke's Works, vol. 3, Project Gutenberg text). (id reflections-on-the-revolution-in-france-q2)

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