Am I blamable in recommending virtue and religion as the true foundation of all monarchies, because the protector of the three religions of the Westphalian arrangement, to ingratiate himself with the Republic of Philosophy, shall abolish all the three?
Burke reflects on the moral foundations of monarchy and the dangers of abandoning them.
Share
More from Edmund Burke
The body of the people must not find the principles of natural subordination by art rooted out of their minds.
Rome, under her emperors, united the evils of both systems; and this unnatural combination was one great cause of her ruin.
In some people I see great liberty, indeed; in many, if not in the most, an oppressive, degrading servitude.
Let us add, if we please, but let us preserve what they have left; and standing on the firm ground of the British Constitution, let us be satisfied to admire, rather than attempt to follow in their desperate flights, the aëronauts of…
Other voices in this conversation
