"We know that we have made no discoveries, and we think
that no discoveries are to be made in morality, nor many in the
great principles of government, nor in the ideas of liberty,
which were understood long before we were born, altogether as
well as they will be after the grave has heaped its mold upon our
presumption and the silent tomb shall have imposed its law on our
pert loquacity."

 -- Edmund Burke (Reflections on the Revolution in France)