Edmund Burke

Irish-born statesman, political philosopher, and member of the British Parliament (1729–1797), whose Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) is the founding text of modern conservatism. Matters to this vault as the other half of a pairing it has tracked since 2026-07-09: Richard Price, the dissenting minister whose 1789 sermon "A Discourse on the Love of Our Country" Burke's Reflections names, quotes by page number, and rebuts at length — the direct engagement is confirmed against both primary texts in claim-burke-attacks-price-by-page-cited-verbatim-quotation.

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