Friday, June 21, 2013

Edmund Burke: the greatest Whig, the first conservative

06/21/2013

EXCERPT: There are never any prizes in politics for being right too early. Burke stood apart, an ascetic soothsayer, a lonely vate, descrying a future invisible to his contemporaries. He was right about America, right about Ireland, right about India and, outstandingly, right about France. As is usually the way, his peers never properly forgave him.


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