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Edmund Burke on Weak Government [PHOTO
SOURCE: http://izquotes.com/quote/27472]
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QUOTE: “Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and
unjust as a feeble government.”
AUTHOR: Edmund
Burke PC (12 January [NS] 1729 – 9 July 1797) was an Irish statesman, author,
orator, political theorist and philosopher who, after moving to England, served
for many years in the House of Commons of Great Britain as a member of the Whig
party. He is mainly remembered for his support of the cause of the American
Revolutionaries, and for his later opposition to the French Revolution. The latter
led to his becoming the leading figure within the conservative faction of the
Whig party, which he dubbed the "Old Whigs", in opposition to the
pro–French Revolution "New Whigs", led by Charles James Fox. Burke
was praised by both conservatives and liberals in the 19th century. Since the
20th century, he has generally been viewed as the philosophical founder of
modern Conservatism, as well as a representative of classical liberalism.
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