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The works and correspondence of...Edmund Burke

The Works and Correspondence of Edmund Burke is a scholarly compilation that brings together a vast array of Burke's published works, including his seminal political treatises, as well as his extensive correspondence with contemporaries. This collection provides a rich source for understanding Burke's influential contributions to political philosophy, his advocacy for constitutional government, and his commentary on the American and French Revolutions. more

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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke, a British statesman and writer, was born on January 12, 1729, and died on July 9, 1797. He was one of the most prominent political thinkers of the 18th century, known for his profound insights into liberty, democracy, and conservatism. more

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“Virtue will catch as well as vice by contact; and the public stock of honest manly principle will daily accumulate. We are not too nicely to scrutinize motives as long as action is irreproachable. It is enough (and for a worthy man perhaps too much) to deal out its infamy to convicted guilt and declared apostasy.”

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Book:The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke: On Conciliation with America; Security of the Independence of Parliament; on Mr. Fox's East India
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“War is the matter which fills all history; and consequently the only, or almost the only, view in which we can see the external of political society is in a hostile shape: and the only actions to which we have always seen, and still see, all of them intent, are such as tend to the destruction of one another.”

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Book:Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches
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