Title page from Select Works of Edmund Burke, vol. 2

Part of: Select Works of Edmund Burke, 4 vols. Select Works of Edmund Burke, vol. 2

Burke’s classic criticism of the French Revolution. It provoked many replies and Burke returned to the issue again and again.

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Politics & Liberty

If I recollect rightly, Aristotle observes, that a democracy has many striking points of resemblance with a tyranny. Of this I am certain, that in a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority, whenever strong divisions prevail in…

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In history a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.

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