Reflecting on Edmund Burke’s “Reflections” – The Imaginative Conservative

It would be difficult to find a more beautiful republican thought in all of Edmund Burke’s writings than this: “A man full of warm speculative benevolence may wish his society otherwise constituted than he finds it; but a good patriot, and a true politician, always considers how he shall make the most of the existing materials of his country”… (essay by Bradley Birzer)
— Read on www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2018/03/edmund-burke-reflections-bradley-birzer.html

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