Edmund Burke Can Still Inspire the American Right

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“Edmund Burke was someone who believed that ‘he had a duty to the present and a duty to the future … a duty to liberty in policy and a duty to stability in polity.’ A modern American conservative movement that embodied these axioms would surely be one less wracked by the internecine conflicts that bedevil it today.” - Acton

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Conciliation With the Colonies

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Edmund Burke, on moving his Resolutions for Conciliation with the Colonies. House of Commons, March 22, 1775

Below are excerpts from the first fifth of the speech. The speech is public domain. All 24,000 words are available at Project Gutenberg.

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