Richard Price

1723 - 1791

About the Author

Richard Price was a Welsh-born liberal Presbyterian minister and moral philosopher. Price is perhaps best known for his vigorous defence of both the American and the French Revolutions. His sermon on “The Love of One’s Country” in 1791 stimulated Burke into writing his famous critique of the French Revolution.

In The Library:

• author: British Moralists, being Selections from Writers principally of the Eighteenth Century, vol. 2 (1897)
• author: A Discourse on the Love of Our Country (1789)
• author: Observations on the Importance of the American Revolution, and the Means of Making it a Benefit to the World (1784)
• author: Observations on the Nature of Civil Liberty, the Principles of Government, and the Justice and Policy of the War with America (1776)

Quotations:

• Richard Price on the true Nature of Love of One’s Country (1789) (20 January, 2010)