Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke
by Edmund Burke
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Edmund Burke, the greatest Whig spokesman of his day in the British Parliament, was one of the most forceful & rational political thinkers of all time. This selection from his speeches & writings reveals a political philosophy which is viable, even prophetic, in our own time. Burke's distrust of disembodied reason, his vision of the law of all nations & his wise pragmatism speak to everyone concerned with maintaining the democratic freedoms in an age when millions are subject to the tyranny of abstract political ideas.
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- SELECTIONS FROM THE SPEECHES AND WRITINGS OF EDMUND BURKE.
- INTRODUCTORY ESSAY.
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- APPENDIX.
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- SELECTIONS FROM THE SPEECHES AND WRITINGS OF EDMUND BURKE.
- NATURE AND FUNCTIONS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.
- RETROSPECT AND RESIGNATION.
- MODESTY OF MIND.
- NEWTON AND NATURE.
- THEORY AND PRACTICE.
- INDUCTION AND COMPARISON.
- DIVINE POWER ON THE HUMAN IDEA.
- UNION OF LOVE AND DREAD IN RELIGION.
- OFFICE OF SYMPATHY.
- WORDS.
- NATURE ANTICIPATES MAN.
- SELF-INSPECTION.
- POWER OF THE OBSCURE.
- FEMALE BEAUTY.
- NOVELTY AND CURIOSITY.
- PLEASURES OF ANALOGY.
- AMBITION.
- EXTENSIONS OF SYMPATHY.
- PHILOSOPHY OF TASTE.
- CLEARNESS AND STRENGTH IN STYLE.
- UNITY OF IMAGINATION.
- EFFECT OF WORDS.
- INVESTIGATION.
- THE SUBLIME.
- OBSCURITY.
- PRINCIPLES OF TASTE.
- THE BEAUTIFUL.
- THE REAL AND THE IDEAL.
- JUDGMENT IN ART.
- MORAL EFFECTS OF LANGUAGE.
- SECURITY OF TRUTH.
- IMITATION AN INSTINCTIVE LAW.
- STANDARD OF REASON AND TASTE.
- USE OF THEORY.
- POLITICAL OUTCASTS.
- INJUSTICE TO OUR OWN AGE.
- FALSE COALITIONS.
- POLITICAL EMPIRICISM.
- A VISIONARY.
- PARTY DIVISIONS.
- DECORUM IN PARTY.
- NOT SO BAD AS WE SEEM.
- POLITICS WITHOUT PRINCIPLE.
- MORAL DEBASEMENT PROGRESSIVE.
- DESPOTISM.
- JUDGMENT AND POLICY.
- POPULAR DISCONTENT.
- THE PEOPLE AND THEIR RULERS.
- GOVERNMENT FAVOURITISM.
- ADMINISTRATION AND LEGISLATION.
- INFLUENCE OF THE CROWN.
- VOICE OF THE PEOPLE.
- FALLACY OF EXTREMES.
- PRIVATE CHARACTER A BASIS FOR PUBLIC CONFIDENCE.
- PREVENTION.
- CONFIDENCE IN THE PEOPLE.
- FALSE MAXIMS ASSUMED AS FIRST PRINCIPLES.
- LORD CHATHAM.
- GRENVILLE.
- CHARLES TOWNSHEND.
- PARTY AND PLACE.
- POLITICAL CONNECTIONS.
- NEUTRALITY.
- WEAKNESS IN GOVERNMENT.
- AMERICAN PROGRESS.
- COMBINATION, NOT FACTION.
- GREAT MEN.
- POWER OF CONSTITUENTS.
- INFLUENCE OF PLACE IN GOVERNMENT.
- TAXATION INVOLVES PRINCIPLE.
- GOOD MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT.
- FISHERIES OF NEW ENGLAND.
- PREPARATION FOR PARLIAMENT.
- BATHURST AND AMERICA'S FUTURE.
- CANDID POLICY.
- WISDOM OF CONCESSION.
- MAGNANIMITY.
- DUTY OF REPRESENTATIVES.
- PRUDENTIAL SILENCE.
- COLONIAL TIES.
- GOVERNMENT AND LEGISLATION.
- PARLIAMENT.
- MORAL LEVELLERS.
- PUBLIC SALARY AND PATRIOTIC SERVICE.
- RATIONAL LIBERTY.
- IRELAND AND MAGNA CHARTA.
- COLONIES AND BRITISH CONSTITUTION.
- RECIPROCAL CONFIDENCE.
- PENSIONS AND THE CROWN.
- COLONIAL PROGRESS.
- FEUDAL PRINCIPLES AND MODERN TIMES.
- RESTRICTIVE VIRTUES.
- LIBELLERS OF HUMAN NATURE.
- REFUSAL A REVENUE.
- A PARTY MAN.
- PATRIOTISM AND PUBLIC INCOME.
- AMERICAN PROTESTANTISM.
- RIGHT OF TAXATION.
- CONTRACTED VIEWS.
- ASSIMILATING POWER OF CONTACT.
- PRUDENCE OF TIMELY REFORM.
- DIFFICULTIES OF REFORMERS.
- PHILOSOPHY OF COMMERCE.
- THEORIZING POLITICIANS.
- ECONOMY AND PUBLIC SPIRIT.
- REFORM OUGHT TO BE PROGRESSIVE.
- CIVIL FREEDOM.
- TENDENCIES OF POWER.
- INDIVIDUAL GOOD AND PUBLIC BENEFIT.
- PUBLIC CORRUPTION.
- CRUELTY AND COWARDICE.
- BAD LAWS PRODUCE BASE SUBSERVIENCY.
- FALSE REGRET.
- BRITISH DOMINION IN EAST INDIA.
- POLITICAL CHARITY.
- EVILS OF DISTRACTION.
- CHARLES FOX.
- THE IMPRACTICABLE UNDESIRABLE.
- CONSTITUTION OF THE COMMONS.
- EMOLUMENTS OF OFFICE.
- MORAL DISTINCTIONS.
- ELECTORS AND REPRESENTATIVES.
- POPULAR OPINION A FALLACIOUS STANDARD.
- ENGLISH REFORMATION.
- PROSCRIPTION.
- JUST FREEDOM.
- ENGLAND'S EMBASSY TO AMERICA.
- HOWARD, THE PHILANTHROPIST.
- PARLIAMENTARY RETROSPECT.
- PEOPLE AND PARLIAMENT.
- REFORMED CIVIL LIST.
- FRENCH AND ENGLISH REVOLUTION.
- ARMED DISCIPLINE.
- GILDED DESPOTISM.
- OUR FRENCH DANGERS.
- SIR GEORGE SAVILLE.
- CORRUPTION NOT SELF-REFORMED.
- THE BRIBED AND THE BRIBERS.
- HYDER ALI.
- REFORMATION AND ANARCHY CONTRASTED AND COMPARED.
- CONFIDENCE AND JEALOUSY.
- ECONOMY OF INJUSTICE.
- SUBSISTENCE AND REVENUE.
- AUTHORITY AND VENALITY.
- PREROGATIVE OF THE CROWN AND PRIVILEGE OF PARLIAMENT.
- BURKE AND FOX.
- PEERS AND COMMONS.
- NATURAL SELF-DESTRUCTION.
- THE CARNATIC.
- ABSTRACT THEORY OF HUMAN LIBERTY.
- POLITICS AND THE PULPIT.
- IDEA OF FRENCH REVOLUTION.
- PATRIOTIC DISTINCTION.
- KINGLY POWER NOT BASED ON POPULAR CHOICE.
- PREACHING DEMOCRACY OF DISSENT.
- JARGON OF REPUBLICANISM.
- CONSERVATIVE PROGRESS OF INHERITED FREEDOM.
- CONSERVATION AND CORRECTION.
- HEREDITARY SUCCESSION OF ENGLISH CROWN.
- LIMITS OF LEGISLATIVE CAPACITY.
- OUR CONSTITUTION, NOT FABRICATED, BUT INHERITED.
- LOW AIMS AND LOW INSTRUMENTS.
- HOUSE OF COMMONS CONTRASTED WITH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.
- PROPERTY, MORE THAN ABILITY, REPRESENTED IN PARLIAMENT.
- VIRTUE AND WISDOM QUALIFY FOR GOVERNMENT.
- NATURAL AND CIVIL RIGHTS.
- MARIE ANTOINETTE.
- SPIRIT OF A GENTLEMAN AND THE SPIRIT OF RELIGION.
- POWER SURVIVES OPINION.
- CHIVALRY A MORALIZING CHARM.
- SACREDNESS OF MORAL INSTINCTS.
- PARENTAL EXPERIENCE.
- REVOLUTIONARY SCENE.
- ECONOMY ON STATE PRINCIPLES.
- PHILOSOPHICAL VANITY; ITS MAXIMS, AND EFFECTS.
- UNITY BETWEEN CHURCH AND STATE.
- TRIPLE BASIS OF FRENCH REVOLUTION.
- I.—REGICIDE.
- II.—JACOBINISM.
- III.—ATHEISM.
- CORRESPONDENT SYSTEM OF MANNERS AND MORALS.
- FEROCITY OF JACOBINISM.
- VOICE OF OPPRESSION.
- BRITAIN VINDICATED IN HER WAR WITH FRANCE.
- POLISH AND FRENCH REVOLUTION.
- EUROPE IN 1789.
- ATHEISM CANNOT REPENT.
- OUTWARD DIGNITY OF THE CHURCH DEFENDED.
- DANGER OF ABSTRACT VIEWS.
- APPEAL TO IMPARTIALITY.
- HISTORICAL ESTIMATE OF LOUIS XVI.
- NEGATIVE RELIGION A NULLITY.
- ANTECHAMBER OF REGICIDE.
- TREMENDOUSNESS OF WAR.
- ENGLISH OFFICERS.
- DIPLOMACY OF HUMILIATION.
- RELATION OF WEALTH TO NATIONAL DIGNITY.
- AMBASSADORS OF INFAMY.
- DIFFICULTY THE PATH TO GLORY.
- ROBESPIERRE AND HIS COUNTERPARTS.
- ACCUMULATION, A STATE PRINCIPLE.
- WARNING FOR A NATION.
- SANTERRE AND TALLIEN.
- SIR SYDNEY SMITH.
- A MORAL DISTINCTION.
- INFIDELS AND THEIR POLICY.
- WHAT A MINISTER SHOULD ATTEMPT.
- LAW OF VICINITY.
- EUROPEAN COMMUNITY.
- PERILS OF JACOBIN PEACE.
- PARLIAMENTARY AND REGAL PREROGATIVE.
- BURKE'S DESIGN IN HIS GREATEST WORK.
- LORD KEPPEL.
- "LABOURING POOR."
- STATE CONSECRATED BY THE CHURCH.
- FATE OF LOUIS XVIII.
- NOBILITY.
- LEGISLATION AND REPUBLICANS.
- PRINCIPLE OF STATE-CONSECRATION.
- BRITISH STABILITY.
- LITERARY ATHEISTS.
- CITY OF PARIS.
- PRINCIPLE OF CHURCH PROPERTY.
- PARSIMONY NOT ECONOMY.
- MAJESTY OF THE BRITISH CONSTITUTION.
- DUTY NOT BASED ON WILL.
- ECCLESIASTICAL CONFISCATION.
- MORAL OF HISTORY.
- USE OF DEFECTS IN HISTORY.
- SOCIAL CONTRACT.
- PRESCRIPTIVE RIGHTS.
- MADNESS OF INNOVATION.
- THE STATE, ITS OWN REVENUE.
- METAPHYSICAL DEPRAVITY.
- PERSONAL AND ANCESTRAL CLAIMS.
- MONASTIC AND PHILOSOPHIC SUPERSTITION.
- DIFFICULTY AND WISDOM OF CORPORATE REFORM.
- DISTINCTIVE CHARACTER OF ENGLISH PROTESTANTISM.
- FICTITIOUS LIBERTY.
- FRENCH IGNORANCE OF ENGLISH CHARACTER.
- THE "PEOPLE," AND "OMNIPOTENCE" OF PARLIAMENT.
- MAGNANIMITY OF ENGLISH PEOPLE.
- TRUE BASIS OF CIVIL SOCIETY.
- ROUSSEAU.
- MORAL HEROES.
- KINGDOM OF FRANCE.
- GRIEVANCE AND OPINION.
- PERPLEXITY AND POLICY.
- HISTORICAL INSTRUCTION.
- MONTESQUIEU.
- ARTICLES, AND SCRIPTURE.
- PROBLEM OF LEGISLATION.
- ORDER, LABOUR, AND PROPERTY.
- REGICIDAL LEGISLATURE.
- GOVERNMENT NOT TO BE RASHLY CENSURED.
- ETIQUETTE.
- ANCIENT ESTABLISHMENTS.
- SENTIMENT AND POLICY.
- PATRIOTISM.
- NECESSITY, A RELATIVE TERM.
- KING JOHN AND THE POPE.
- CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCE.
- "PRIESTS OF THE RIGHTS OF MAN."
- "HIS GRACE."
- SPECULATION AND HISTORY.
- LABOUR AND WAGES.
- A COMPLETE REVOLUTION.
- BRITISH GOVERNMENT IN INDIA.
- MONEY AND SCIENCE.
- POLITICAL AXIOMS.
- I.
- II.
- III.
- IV.
- V.
- VI.
- VII.
- VIII.
- X.
- XI.
- XII.
- DISAPPOINTED AMBITION.
- DIFFICULTY AN INSTRUCTOR.
- SOVEREIGN JURISDICTIONS.
- PRUDERY OF FALSE REFORM.
- EXAGGERATION.
- TACTICS OF CABAL.
- GOVERNMENT, RELATIVE, NOT ABSOLUTE.
- GENERAL VIEWS.
- MAGNITUDE IN BUILDING.
- SOCIETY AND SOLITUDE.
- EAST-INDIA BILL AND COMPANY.
- PARLIAMENTS AND ELECTIONS.
- RELIGION AND MAGISTRACY.
- PERSECUTION, FALSE IN THEORY.
- IRISH LEGISLATION.
- HENRY OF NAVARRE.
- TEST ACTS.
- WHAT FACTION OUGHT TO TEACH.
- GRIEVANCES BY LAW.
- REVOLUTIONARY POLITICS.
- TOLERATION BECOME INTOLERANT.
- WILKES AND RIGHT OF ELECTION.
- ROCKINGHAM AND CONWAY.
- POLITICS IN THE PULPIT.
- WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR.
- KING ALFRED.
- DRUIDS.
- SAXON CONQUEST AND CONVERSION.
- MINISTERIAL RESPONSIBILITY.
- MONASTIC INSTITUTIONS AND THEIR RESULTS.
- COMMON LAW AND MAGNA CHARTA.
- EUROPE AND THE NORMAN INVASION.
- ANCIENT INHABITANTS OF BRITAIN.
- PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS.
- TRUE NATURE OF A JACOBIN WAR.
- NATIONAL DIGNITY.
- PRINCIPLES OF GOVERNMENT NOT ABSOLUTE, BUT RELATIVE.
- DECLARATION OF 1793.
- MORAL DIET.
- KING WILLIAM'S POLICY.
- DISTEMPER OF REMEDY.
- WAR AND WILL OF THE PEOPLE.
- FALSE POLICY IN OUR FRENCH WAR.
- MORAL ESSENCE MAKES A NATION.
- PUBLIC SPIRIT.
- PROGRESSIVE GROWTH OF CHRISTIAN STATES.
- PETTY INTERESTS.
- PIUS VII.
- EXTINCTION OF LOCAL PATRIOTISM.
- WALPOLE AND HIS POLICY.
- POLITICAL PEACE.
- PUBLIC LOANS.
- HISTORICAL STRICTURES.
- CONSTITUTION NOT THE PEOPLE'S SLAVE.
- MODERN "LIGHTS."
- REPUBLICS IN THE ABSTRACT.
- AN ENGLISH MONARCH.
- PHYSIOGNOMY.
- THE EYE.
- ABOLITION AND USE OF PARLIAMENTS.
- CROMWELL AND HIS CONTRASTS.
- DELICACY.
- CONFISCATION AND CURRENCY.
- "OMNIPOTENCE OF CHURCH PLUNDER."
- UGLINESS.
- GRACE.
- ELEGANCE AND SPECIOUSNESS.
- THE BEAUTIFUL IN FEELING.
- THE BEAUTIFUL IN SOUNDS.
- BRITISH CHURCH.
- INDEX.
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