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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 writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.”
— Preface
“I decline the election. — It has ever been my rule through life, to observe a proportion between my efforts and my objects. I have never been remarkable for a bold, active, and sanguine pursuit of advantages that are personal to myself.”
— Speech at Bristol on declining the poll (9 September 1780), quoted in The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. II (1855), p. 170
“Vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness.”
— Volume iii, p. 332
“I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard, than in the tombs of the Capulets.”
— Letter to Matthew Smith
“Burke's book is a most admirable medication against the French disease, which has made too much progress even in this happy country. I admire his eloquence, I approve his politics, I adore his chivalry, and I can even forgive his superstition.”
— Edward Gibbon, letter to Lord Sheffield (5 February 1791), quoted in J. E. Norton (ed.), The Letters of Edward Gibbon: Volume Three 1784-1794 (1956), p. 216
“[Burke was] the most sagacious Politician of his age... Time has verified his predictions.”
— William Wordsworth, Two Addresses to the Freeholders of Westmorland (1818), p. 11

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Notable quotes

“The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.”
— Preface
“I decline the election. — It has ever been my rule through life, to observe a proportion between my efforts and my objects. I have never been remarkable for a bold, active, and sanguine pursuit of advantages that are personal to myself.”
— Speech at Bristol on declining the poll (9 September 1780), quoted in The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. II (1855), p. 170
“Vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness.”
— Volume iii, p. 332
“I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard, than in the tombs of the Capulets.”
— Letter to Matthew Smith
“Burke's book is a most admirable medication against the French disease, which has made too much progress even in this happy country. I admire his eloquence, I approve his politics, I adore his chivalry, and I can even forgive his superstition.”
— Edward Gibbon, letter to Lord Sheffield (5 February 1791), quoted in J. E. Norton (ed.), The Letters of Edward Gibbon: Volume Three 1784-1794 (1956), p. 216
“[Burke was] the most sagacious Politician of his age... Time has verified his predictions.”
— William Wordsworth, Two Addresses to the Freeholders of Westmorland (1818), p. 11

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