Jacobinism is the revolt of the enterprising talents of a country against its property.
Edmund Burke
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Edmund Burke was an Anglo-Irish writer, philosopher, and politician who is widely credited as the founder of the cultural and political philosophy of conservatism. Regarded as one of the most influential conservative thinkers and political writers of the 18th century, Burke spent the majority of his career in Great Britain and was elected as a member of Parliament (MP) from 1766 to 1794 in the House of Commons of Great Britain with the Whig Party. His writings played a significant role in influencing public views and opinions in both Great Britain and France following the French Revolution in 1789, and he remains a major figure in modern conservative circles.
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The commonwealth which acts uniformly upon those principles, and which, after abolishing every festival of religion, chooses the most flagrant act of a murderous regicide treason for a feast of eternal commemoration, and which forces all…
Its foundation is laid in Regicide, in Jacobinism, and in Atheism; and it has joined to those principles a body of systematic manners which secures their operation.
Instead of the religion and the law by which they were in a great politic communion with the Christian world, they have constructed their republic on three bases, all fundamentally opposite to those on which the communities of Europe are…
With a fixed design they have outlawed themselves, and to their power outlawed all other nations.
They have not only annulled all their old treaties, but they have renounced the law of nations, from whence treaties have their force.
No man, in a public or private concern, can divine by what rule or principle her judgments are to be directed: nor is there to be found a professor in any university, or a practitioner in any court, who will hazard an opinion of what is or…
In that jurisprudence were contained the elements and principles of the law of nations, the great ligament of mankind.
France, since her Revolution, is under the sway of a sect whose leaders have deliberately, at one stroke, demolished the whole body of that jurisprudence which France had pretty nearly in common with other civilized countries.
It is a serious thing to have a connection with a people who live only under positive, arbitrary, and changeable institutions,--and those not perfected nor supplied nor explained by any common, acknowledged rule of moral science.
A government of the nature of that set up at our very door has never been hitherto seen or even imagined in Europe.
The influence of such a France is equal to a war, its example more wasting than an hostile irruption.
To live without the dread of them is to turn the danger into the disaster.
To live under the continual dread of such immeasurable evils is itself a grievous calamity.
They who are to live in the vicinity of this new fabric are to prepare to live in perpetual conspiracies and seditions, and to end at last in being conquered, if not to her dominion, to her resemblance.
You, who have looked at this matter with as fair and impartial an eye as can be united with a feeling heart, you will not think it an hardy assertion, when I affirm that it were far better to be conquered by any other nation than to have…
If a war to prevent Louis the Fourteenth from imposing his religion was just, a war to prevent the murderers of Louis the Sixteenth from imposing their irreligion upon us is just: a war to prevent the operation of a system which makes life…
If the war made to prevent the union of two crowns upon one head was a just war, this, which is made to prevent the tearing all crowns from all heads which ought to wear them, and with the crowns to smite off the sacred heads themselves…
I am sure the natural feeling, as I have just said, is a far more predominant ingredient in this war than in that of any other that ever was waged by this kingdom.
It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind.
The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man.
The calculation of profit in all such wars is false.
Speculative plunder,--contingent spoil,--future, long adjourned, uncertain booty,--pillage which must enrich a late posterity, and which possibly may not reach to posterity at all,--these, for any length of time, will never support a…
It has nothing that can keep the mind erect under the gusts of adversity.
This was to know the true art of gaining the affections and confidence of an high-minded people; this was to understand human nature.
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