Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke. Edmund Burke

THE PEOPLE AND THEIR RULERS.

       GOVERNMENT FAVOURITISM.

       ADMINISTRATION AND LEGISLATION.

       INFLUENCE OF THE CROWN.

       VOICE OF THE PEOPLE.

       FALLACY OF EXTREMES.

       PRIVATE CHARACTER A BASIS FOR PUBLIC CONFIDENCE.

       PREVENTION.

       CONFIDENCE IN THE PEOPLE.

       FALSE MAXIMS ASSUMED AS FIRST PRINCIPLES.

       LORD CHATHAM.

       GRENVILLE.

       CHARLES TOWNSHEND.

       PARTY AND PLACE.

       POLITICAL CONNECTIONS.

       NEUTRALITY.

       WEAKNESS IN GOVERNMENT.

       AMERICAN PROGRESS.

       COMBINATION, NOT FACTION.

       GREAT MEN.

       POWER OF CONSTITUENTS.

       INFLUENCE OF PLACE IN GOVERNMENT.

       TAXATION INVOLVES PRINCIPLE.

       GOOD MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT.

       FISHERIES OF NEW ENGLAND.

       PREPARATION FOR PARLIAMENT.

       BATHURST AND AMERICA'S FUTURE.

       CANDID POLICY.

       WISDOM OF CONCESSION.

       MAGNANIMITY.

       DUTY OF REPRESENTATIVES.

       PRUDENTIAL SILENCE.

       COLONIAL TIES.

       GOVERNMENT AND LEGISLATION.

       PARLIAMENT.

       MORAL LEVELLERS.

       PUBLIC SALARY AND PATRIOTIC SERVICE.

       RATIONAL LIBERTY.

       IRELAND AND MAGNA CHARTA.

       COLONIES AND BRITISH CONSTITUTION.

       RECIPROCAL CONFIDENCE.

       PENSIONS AND THE CROWN.

       COLONIAL PROGRESS.

       FEUDAL PRINCIPLES AND MODERN TIMES.

       RESTRICTIVE VIRTUES.

       LIBELLERS OF HUMAN NATURE.

       REFUSAL A REVENUE.

       A PARTY MAN.

       PATRIOTISM AND PUBLIC INCOME.

       AMERICAN PROTESTANTISM.

       RIGHT OF TAXATION.

       CONTRACTED VIEWS.

       ASSIMILATING POWER OF CONTACT.

       PRUDENCE OF TIMELY REFORM.

       DIFFICULTIES OF REFORMERS.

       PHILOSOPHY OF COMMERCE.

       THEORIZING POLITICIANS.

       ECONOMY AND PUBLIC SPIRIT.