Anglo-Irish statesman, political theorist and conservative philosopher (1729–1797)
An 18th-century Anglo-Irish politician who watched the French Revolution unfold and wrote the text that became conservatism's founding document — arguing that tearing down old institutions destroys more than it saves.
Edmund Burke spent nearly three decades as a Whig MP in the House of Commons, from 1766 to 1794, defending causes that didn't always align: he supported the American colonists' right to resist British taxes (though not independence), pushed for Catholic emancipation, and led the impeachment effort against Warren Hastings of the East India Company. In 1790, watching the French Revolution consume the church and ancien régime, he published Reflections on the Revolution in France, asserting that revolution was shredding the fabric of good society and that manners, religious institutions, and inher…
Sourced, dated quotes from Edmund Burke
In the interval between his campaigns Agricola was employed in the great labours of peace.
The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.
War," says Machiavel, "ought to be the only study of a prince;" and by a prince he means every sort of state, however constituted.
I need not excuse myself to your Lordship, nor, I think, to any honest man, for the zeal I have shown in this cause; for it is an honest zeal, and in a good cause.
There are few with whom I can communicate so freely as with Pope. But Pope cannot bear every truth.
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