The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12)
1862
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12)
1862
In the age of empire and established churches, one voice argued for conscience over coercion. This seventh volume gathers Burke's parliamentary speeches on religious liberty, presenting his impassioned defenses of dissenting Protestants against the restrictive Acts of Uniformity. Here is Burke not as the conservative oracle of empire, but as a reformist champion of civil liberties, arguing that persecution for religious belief degrades both the persecutor and the persecuted. The speeches collected here reveal a philosopher of governance wrestling with the tensions between tradition and reform, between the privileges of the Church of England and the rights of conscientious objectors. Burke's rhetoric is precise, his logic relentless: why should the state enforce uniformity of worship when uniformity of belief cannot be compelled? These are not dry parliamentary proceedings but elegant arguments for tolerance that resonate far beyond their 18th-century moment. For readers interested in the intellectual foundations of modern religious freedom, or anyone curious about how Enlightenment thinkers grappled with questions we still face today, this volume offers a masterclass in principled dissent.
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“Great designs may be started and the spirit of them inspired by enthusiasts, but cool heads are required to bring them into form.””
— Edmund Burke
“Few things discover the state of the arts amongst people more certainly than the presents that are made to them by foreigners.””
— Edmund Burke
“More observe the characters of men than the order of things: to the one we are formed by Nature, and by that sympathy from which we are so strongly led to take a part in the passions and manners of our fellow-men; the other is, as it were, foreign and extrinsical.””
— Edmund Burke
“I know there is an order that keeps things fast in their place: it is made to us, and we are made to it. Why not ask another wife, other children, another body, another mind?””
— Edmund Burke
“it were better to get simplicity, if certainty is not to be had,””
— Edmund Burke
“he was, indeed, arrived at that pitch of greatness, that the means of his ruin could only be found in his own family.””
— Edmund Burke
“Stephen felt personally these inconveniences; but because the evil was too stubborn to be redressed at once, he resolved to proceed gradually,””
— Edmund Burke
“they never thought of entering into any alliance against them; they equally neglected the other obvious method to prevent their incursions, which was, to carry the war into the invaders' country.””
— Edmund Burke
“there was no foreign war, because this prince was always ready for war.””
— Edmund Burke
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