1723 - 1791

Nationality:
English

Historical Period:
The 18th Century

Groups

• 18th Century Commonwealthmen
• Founding Fathers' Library

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.

Titles:

• Author: British Moralists vol. 2
• Author: A Discourse on the Love of Our Country
• Author: Observations on the Importance of the American Revolution
• Author: Observations on the Nature of Civil Liberty

Quotations:

• Richard Price on the true Nature of Love of One's Country (1789)
• Richard Price on giving thanks for the principles of the Revolution of 1688 (1789)
• Richard Price on how the "domestic enemies" of liberty have been more powerful and more successful than foreign enemies (1789)

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