The people of England look upon the legal hereditary succession of their crown as among their rights, not as among their wrongs,—as a benefit, not as a grievance,—as a security for their liberty, not as a badge of servitude.
#EdmundBurke
#ReflectionsOnTheRevolutionInFrance
Edmund Burke taught society is a contract across generations. California’s huge debt and failed policies break that contract. Conserve what works and reform what clearly doesn’t. #EdmundBurke #GenerationalWisdom #Conservative
At some time or other, to be sure, all the beginners of dynasties were chosen by those who called them to govern. There is ground enough for the opinion that all the kingdoms of Europe were at a remote period elective, with more or fewer limitations in the objects of choice.
#EdmundBurke
The National CONSERVATISM movement is a project of the #EdmundBurke Foundation, a conservative US think tank. Its founder is Israeli political theorist YORAM HAZONY.
“NatCon is filled with extremists touting #WhiteNationalism & #conspiracy theories. What is notable is how Trumps administration.." 👇
The National CONSERVATISM movement is a project of the #EdmundBurke Foundation, a conservative U.S. think tank. Its founder is Israeli political theorist YORAM HAZONY.
“NatCon is filled with extremists touting #WhiteNationalism & #conspiracy theories. What is notable is how Trumps administration.."
National CONSERVATISM movement is a project of the #EdmundBurke Foundation, a conservative U.S. think tank. Its founder, Israeli political theorist Yoram Hazony, defines national conservatism as a #politicalphilosophy centered on the restoration & preservation of national & religious ....
Sept 2025
Seen at @archive.org while editing #Wiktionary: “[E]ven the Whim and Caprice of one ruling Man among them, is enough to arm all the rest, without any private Views of their own, to the worst and blackest Purposes; […]” – #EdmundBurke, “A Vindication of Natural Society” (1756).
Society for Constitutional Information was intended for the circulation, at the expense of the members, of many books which few others would be at the expense of buying. Whether the books so charitably circulated were ever as charitably read is more than I know.
#EdmundBurke
loaded tots
nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little
#edmundburke #botd
The founder of Principled Conservativism, Edmund Burke, believed in making gradual reforms to prevent catastrophes like revolutions and war. #Conservative #Conservativism #EdmundBurke
"Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites..."
✒ #EdmundBurke, Anglo-Irish statesman, philosopher, and author, was #BOTD 12 January 1729. #Philosophy #Politics
Burke: "Manners are more important than laws."
Hume: "Reason is slave of the passions."
Jane Austen's P&P was originally titled First Impressions. My essay on her moraity:
krishinasnani.substack.com/p/the-morali...
#JaneAusten #EdmundBurke #DavidHume #MoralPhilosophy #FirstImpressions
As the modern right is really quite radical, even extreme -- not just stopping progress like classic conservatives, but rapidly dragging us backward with fascistic fervour; how do they respond to being told people only call them "conservative" because that's how they self-identify?
#EdmundBurke
"In recent years there has been a renewal of interest in eighteenth-century #Aesthetics. Burke's #Enquiry is, of course, a major text for all of this critical activity." ~The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism #EdmundBurke #Philosophy #NDPGems
Book: https://bit.ly/3X8qQu3
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting. #EdmundBurke #booknerd #booktok #bookstagram
New episode! 🚨
He was Rockingham's secretary, so far from a #primeminister himself, but #EdmundBurke 's political writings are some of the most significant in British history. We pause our narrative to take a look at his impact on how politics works today
#history #podcast #georgians #politics
Ich werd hier grad immer noch mehr zum Manfred-Berg-Fan.
Ein weiterer wirklich hörenswerter Vortrag, ein weiteres wirklich interessantes Buch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXmPact5yYA
#WoodrowWilson #USA #Selbstbestimmungsrecht #EdmundBurke
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."
✒️ #EdmundBurke, British statesman and philosopher (Reflections on the Revolution in France), #DOTD 9 July 1797. #Politics #Philosophy
TOMORROW!
🎩 Edmund Burke: A Gentleman, Statesman & Scholar
📅 Friday 23 May | 7:30 – 9:00 pm BST
📍 BRLSI – The World of Jane Austen Series
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#JaneAusten250 #EdmundBurke #RegencyEra #BRLSI #PhilosophyAndFiction
