Much evil has been done in India under the British authority.
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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For one, the worst event of this day, though it may deject, shall not break or subdue me.
If we concurred with you in this opinion, we should certainly feel our hopes of advantage to all the parties from this arrangement considerably diminished.
The French had shown themselves the ablest architects of ruin that had hitherto existed in the world.
That this cause of theirs was not an enemy to servitude, but to society.
Does not something like this now appear in France?
The Revolution, which is resorted to for a title, on their system, wants a title itself.
I believe the instances of eminent depravity may be as rare amongst them as those of transcendent goodness.
What vestiges of liberty or property have they left?
From that worst of evils, thank God, we are still free.
It is no less than this:--The king has promulgated in circular letters to all the regiments his direct authority and encouragement, that the several corps should join themselves with the clubs and confederations in the several…
I may speak it upon an assurance almost approaching to absolute knowledge, that nothing has been done that has not been contrived from the beginning, even before the States had assembled.
Proceeding, therefore, as we are obliged to proceed,--that is, upon an hypothesis that we address rational men,--can false political principles be more effectually exposed than by demonstrating that they lead to consequences directly…
There is a confidence necessary to human intercourse, and without which men are often more injured by their own suspicions than they would be by the perfidy of others.
But when men whom we know to be wicked impose upon us, we are something worse than dupes.
There is one case, indeed, in which it would be madness not to give the fullest credit to the most deceitful of men,--that is, when they make declarations of hostility against us.
If there is any good in them, it appears then or never.
But it must be admitted that Monk freed this nation from great and just apprehensions both of future anarchy and of probable tyranny in some form or other.
The king whom he gave us was, indeed, the very reverse of your benignant sovereign, who, in reward for his attempt to bestow liberty on his subjects, languishes himself in prison.
These people are only made to be the sport of tyrants.
When I assert anything else, as concerning the people of England, I speak from observation, not from authority.
If ever we ought to be economists even to parsimony, it is in the voluntary production of evil.
Burke put a more strict rule upon himself than most moralists would put upon others.
Nothing is plainer than that the people have a right to the laws and the Constitution.
Alas! it has none of those properties, but is the reverse of them all.
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