“Burke is famous for insisting on gradual change, reforming abuses but never tearing down the inherited structure in order to replace it with something entirely new. The American Founders had no thought of doing that, either. They were patricians who rejected rule from London but expected their society to continue much as it always had. “The progress of reformation,” Johnson wrote in an essay, “is gradual and silent, as the extension of evening shadows.” And when Boswell commented, “So, Sir, you laugh at schemes of political improvement,” Johnson replied, “Why, Sir, most schemes of political improvement are very laughable things.”45 Damrosch, Leo. The Club (Kindle Locations 3029-3034). Yale University Press. Kindle Edition. ”

— gradual change vs. revolution