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Edmund Burke:
1729-1797 Irish-born British political philosopher and statesman. As a Whig member of Parliament (1765-1794), he was one of the greatest orators of the age. His Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) condemned the French Revolution and reached a wide European audience.
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  • Edmund Burke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Edmund Burke (12 January 1729 – 9 July 1797) was an Anglo-Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist, and philosopher who served for many years in the British House of ...

  • Edmund Burke, 1729-1797

    The British statesman and philosopher, Edmund Burke, was born in Dublin, January 12, educated at a Quaker boarding school and at Trinity College, Dublin. In 1750 he entered the ...

  • Edmund Burke Quotes - The Quotations Page

    Edmund Burke I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone.

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