Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom.

Edmund Burke

Reflections on the Revolution in France

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Purpose of government Government

Author

Edmund Burke

Source

Reflections on the Revolution in France

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1790 1790s 18th century

Occupation

Philosopher Politician Writer

From

Ireland Europe

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Original Citation

Burke, Edmund. Reflections on the Revolution in France. London: James Dodsley, 1790.

Current Citation

Burke, Edmund. "Reflections on the Revolution in France." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009.

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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

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Speech at County Meeting of Buckinghamshire
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Burke, Edmund. "Speech at a County Meeting of Buckinghamshire." 1784, Buckinghamshire, England, UK.

Another quote from the 1790s

The church has set up a system of religion very contradictory to the character of the person whose name it bears. It has set up a religion of pomp and of revenue in pretended imitation of a person whose life was humility and poverty.

Thomas Paine

The Age of Reason

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Medium
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Time
1794 1790s 18th century
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Paine, Thomas. The Age of Reason, Part I. London: Joel Barlow, 1794.

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Another quote about Government

England is the mother of parliaments.

John Bright

Speech in Birmingham, January 18, 1865

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England Government
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John Bright
Source
Speech in Birmingham, January 18, 1865
Medium
Speech
Genre
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Language
English
Time
1865 1860s 19th century
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Bright, John. Speech in Birmingham. 18 Jan. 1865, Town Hall, Birmingham, England, UK.