Edmund Burke (1729-1797) was an Anglo-Irish statesman and political thinker. His most famous work is Reflections on the Revolution in France a critique of the social and political turmoil in that country in the final decade of the 18th century. Burke advocated only gradual change to political and social institutions which had already proved themselves of value over time.
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