| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | | | | | | NUMBER: | 1715 | | AUTHOR: | Edmund Burke (1729–97) | | QUOTATION: | [Society] is a partnership in all science, a partnership in all art, a partnership in every virtue and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, 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. | | ATTRIBUTION: | EDMUND BURKE, “Reflections on the Revolution in France,” 1790, The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, vol. 3, p. 359 (1899). | | SUBJECTS: | Society | | |
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