Who is Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke (; 12 January [NS] 1729 – 9 July 1797) was an Irish-born British statesman, economist, and philosopher. Born in Dublin, Burke served as a member of Parliament (MP) between 1766 and 1794 in the House of Commons of Great Britain with the Whig Party.

Burke was a proponent of underpinning virtues with manners in society and of the importance of religious institutions for the moral stability and good of the state. These views were expressed in his A Vindication of Natural Society. He criticised the actions of the British government towards the American colonies, including its taxation policies. Burke also supported the rights of the colonists to resist metropolitan authority, although he opposed the attempt to achieve independence. He is remembered for his support for Ca...
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Edmund Burke Quotes

• But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
• The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
• Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
• Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
• Beauty is the promise of happiness.

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