Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke

SELECTIONS FROM THE SPEECHES AND WRITINGS OF EDMUND BURKE.

By Edmund Burke

INTRODUCTORY ESSAY.

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"Id dico, eum qui sit orator, virum bonum esse oportere. In omnibus quae dicit tanta auctoritas inest, ut dissentire pudeat; nec advocati studium, sed testis aut judicis afferat fidem."--Quintilianus.

"Democracy is the most monstrous of all governmen...