“[I]t is an arduous thing to plead against abuses of
a power which originates from your own country, and affects those whom we are
used to consider as strangers.”—Anglo-Irish statesman and father of
conservatism Edmund Burke (1729-1797), “Speech on Mr. Fox's East India Bill,” December 1, 1783, from Selected Works of Edmund BurkeThursday, July 12, 2018
Quote of the Day (Edmund Burke, on Arguing Against Abuses ‘From Your Own Country’)
“[I]t is an arduous thing to plead against abuses of
a power which originates from your own country, and affects those whom we are
used to consider as strangers.”—Anglo-Irish statesman and father of
conservatism Edmund Burke (1729-1797), “Speech on Mr. Fox's East India Bill,” December 1, 1783, from Selected Works of Edmund Burke
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