Edmund Burke#Edmund
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#Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke · 1729–1797
In the books · 1 chapter
Who this is
“The man who wrote the founding book of conservatism spent his whole career fighting the powerful — for America, for Ireland, for India — because his one constant enemy was arbitrary power, in whatever costume it wore.”
The big idea, in the book's words:
“A society is a partnership between the dead, the living, and the unborn — so real reform works with inherited institutions, prudently, and never hands unlimited power to anyone armed only with a theory.”
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