[Gutenberg 3286] • Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke, the greatest Whig spokesman of his day in the British Parliament, was one of the most forceful & rational political thinkers of all time. This selection from his speeches & writings reveals a political philosophy which is viable, even prophetic, in our own time. Burke's distrust of disembodied reason, his vision of the law of all nations & his wise pragmatism speak to everyone concerned with maintaining the democratic freedoms in an age when millions are subject to the tyranny of abstract political ideas.