Burke, Edmund

An Irish political leader and author of the eighteenth century who spent his career in England . A member of the British Parliament and an exceptional speaker, he sympathized with the American Revolutionary War as a defense of existing rights of citizens. He opposed the French Revolution , however, saying that it was a complete and unjustified break with tradition. ( See Thomas Paine .)

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As Edmund Burke wisely said, “Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.”

"To make men love their country, their country ought to be lovable," wrote Edmund Burke.

As Edmund Burke once wrote, “Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.”

“The age of chivalry is gone,” wrote the British philosopher Edmund Burke at the time of the French Revolution.

A cross between a novel by John Updike and Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France.

Edmund Burke, a British writer, orator and statesman of great eminence, died.

Others, indeed (as Dowdeswill and Edmund Burke), stood firmly by their old ground.

The great statesman and political writer, Edmund Burke, was the inventor of many of our commonest words relating to politics.

There we paid willing homage to all that remained of the habitation consecrated by the genius of Edmund Burke.

Edmund Burke had an interview with him and held that inordinate vanity was the leading trait in his character.

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