Title page from Select Works of Edmund Burke, 4 vols.

Select Works of Edmund Burke, 4 vols.

A 4 volume collection on Burke’s speeches and writings on economics, the American Revolution and the French Revolution.

Key Quotes

Revolution

These vices are the causes of those storms. Religion, morals, laws, prerogatives, privileges, liberties, rights of men, are the pretexts. The pretexts are always found in some specious appearance of a real good. You would not secure men from tyranny and sedition, by rooting out of the mind the…