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 governments, because it is impossible at once to act and control; and, consequently, the Sovereign Power is then left withou ...