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'Edmund Burke' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:

Red Rose (2005)

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Drama

Longitude (2000)

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In the 18th century, the only way to navigate accurately at sea was to follow a coastline all the way, which would not get you from Europe to the West Indies or the Americas. Observing the sun or stars would give you the latitude, but not the longitude unless done in conjunction with a clock that would keep time accurately at sea, and no such clock existed. After one too many maritime disasters due to navigational errors, the British Parliament set up a substantial prize for a way to find the longitude at sea. The film's main story is that of craftsman John Harrison: he built a clock that would do the job, what we would now call a marine chronometer. But the Board of Longitude was biased against this approach and claiming the prize was no simple matter. Told in parallel is the 20th century story of Rupert Gould, for whom the restoration of Harrison's clocks to working order became first a hobby, then an obsession that threatened to wreck his life.

Keywords: 1700s, 1920s, admiration, based-on-book, based-on-true-story, british-navy, bureaucracy, chronometer, clock, father-son-relationship

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George Graham: One second a month, sir! You're either a liar or a fool. --Who're your makers?::John Harrison: Myself, and my brother James.::George Graham: Really? Who were you apprenticed to?::John Harrison: My father, as was he. I am a carpenter by profession.::George Graham: A carpenter?!::John Harrison: My timekeepers are made of wood. I've brought some drawings with me.::George Graham: I'm sorry, I mistook you. This is a joke, sir, am I right? Mr. Halley seeks to derive some pleasure from this contrivance? Is he here, perhaps, hiding in a corner to watch my performance?::John Harrison: It is I who am sorry, sir! The fault is mine. It was my impression I was here to see a clockmaker; I find myself in a toy shop by mistake! William!::[turns to leave]

George Graham: Mr. Harrison! Summer and winter... how is it done? How is it done, the compensation?::John Harrison: I use a pendulum of different metals that work against each other.::George Graham: Impossible. Doesn't work. I've tried it.::John Harrison: It is possible. It does work. I've built it.

Rupert Gould: Sir Frank, I'm not asking to mechanically alter the Harrison machines; I just want to bring them back to their proper condition. If they're left as they are much longer, I fear they may become unrecoverable. I know my qualifications appear unlikely; I can only plead that they're no more so than Harrison's own.

Muriel Gould: I want you to give up the clock.::Rupert Gould: I will... when it's finished.::Muriel Gould: Yes, I knew you'd say that. Silly of me, really.

John Harrison: I'm afraid you must excuse me, but I should go back on deck. The air in here is...::John Campbell: Poisonous? You'll get used to it. Most people don't notice it after the first couple of years.

Minister for the Navy: [to Parliament] Honorable Members who mourn with us the recent tragic loss off the Scilly Isles of four of Her Majesty's ships, and 2,000 wretched souls therein, under the command of Admiral Sir Cloudisley Shovell, will be pleased to know that Her Majesty's government is to offer a reward -- a prize of twenty thousand pounds -- to any man offering a practicable and useful solution to the problem of finding longitude at sea. A Board of Longitude will be set up, whose sole business will be to investigate any serious suggestions, and finally, it is profoundly to be hoped, to award this prize.

John Harrison: It's not just beautiful, it's divine: that's where the beauty lies, you see. Each note on the scale is calculated by mathematical formula, based on the circumference of a circle, you see.::Sir Charles Pelham: Uh, almost...::John Harrison: The step between each note is composed of larger and lesser intervals, each derived from pi. It is divine because for the first time we are listening to music as the Lord intended.

Sir Charles Pelham: How can you tell if a clock is running 5 seconds faster, or slower?::John Harrison: My own pendulum clock is adjusted to one second a month.::Sir Charles Pelham: O-ho-ho, no clock can be that accurate.::John Harrison: Mine can.

John Harrison: Impossible, sir. Clock needs a pendulum. Can't take a pendulum to sea.::Sir Charles Pelham: Not like you to say "impossible," John.::John Harrison: No, sir.

Elizabeth Harrison: You've found a way to build this sea-clock, haven't you?::John Harrison: With God's help it might be possible. --I mean, why did He encourage me to build a perfect timepiece in the first place? So the blacksmith might start work 5 seconds earlier or later? Or was it to give us the ability to explore His creation in safety, to move without fear in the space He's given us to inhabit?

America (1924)

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THe first half of the film portrays the struggle of the under-armed, under-manned colonists against the British Redcoats at Lexington, Bunker Hill and Valley Forge. Other landmarks of the American Revolution shown include the Boston Tea Party, Paul Revere's midnight ride and Patrick Henry's (played by Frank McGlyyn Jr. and not played by his father Frank McGlynn Sr) inflammatory speeches to the VIrginia House of Burgesses. The second half dwells on the bloody Indian War of Mohawk Valley. THe parts are tied together by the troubled romance between a young patriot, Nathan Holden (Neal Hamilton (I)')and Nancy Montague ('Carol Dempster' (qv)), the daughter of a Tory Judge.

Keywords: 1770s, american-revolution, battle, battlefield, boston-massachusetts, boston-tea-party, british-redcoat, bunker-hill, card-game, church

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Love of tender girlhood! Passionate deeds of heroes! A rushing, leaping drama of charm and excitement!
A Thrilling Story of Love and Romance

Famous quotes by Edmund Burke:

"Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born."

"Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who does nothing because he could only do a little"

"Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting."

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing"

"In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority"

"Education is the cheap defense of nations"

"Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it."

"No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear."

"All that's necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing."

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

"A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman."

"What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man."

"A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors."

"People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors."

"I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business."

"Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver."

"But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever."

"Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together."

"Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed."

"Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits."

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The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left

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Duration: 59:42
Updated: 06 Dec 2013

For more than two centuries, American political life has been divided between a party of progress and a party of conservation. In "The Great Debate", Yuval Levin explores the origins of the Left/Right divide by examining the views of the men who best represented each side of that debate at its outset: Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine. Levin shows that American partisanship originated in these two ideological titans' fiery debates over the French Revolution.

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19. The Burkean Outlook

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Duration: 48:19
Updated: 06 Sep 2012

Moral Foundations of Politics (PLSC 118) Edmund Burke was an English politician who wrote his Reflections on the Revolution in France to express his disdain ...

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Edmund Burke: Philosopher, Politician, Prophet

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Duration: 65:24
Updated: 13 Aug 2013

Full webcast from the RSA event on Thursday 13 June 6pm BST. An edited video of the event will be available in HD in the near future. At the event campaigner...

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Edmund Burke mini lecture

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Updated: 03 Aug 2013

A mini lecture on the political philosophy of Edmund Burke.

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Who Was Edmund Burke?

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Duration: 3:26
Updated: 12 Aug 2013

In this presentation of The Right Mind, Wes Siler discusses the origin of conservatism and traces it back to the 18th century statesman and political philoso...

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Levin Talks About Thomas Paine and Edmund Burke

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Duration: 9:57
Updated: 04 Aug 2013

Mark Levin is a nationally syndicated radio talk show host. Visit www.marklevinshow.com to learn more about Mark and his superior show. More great segments o...

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Edmund Burke: Philosopher, Politician, Prophet by Jesse Norman MP | 20.06.2013

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Updated: 25 Jul 2013

We are delighted to welcome our alumnus Jesse Norman MP back to Policy Exchange for a panel discussion on his biography of Edmund Burke, philosopher, statesm...

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What's the Modern Definition of a Conservative?

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Updated: 22 Jul 2013

Adam Smith and Edmund Burke are the most significant figures of the founding in the conservative movement of America. Their similarities and differences in t...

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Greatest Speeches in History Edmund Burke

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Updated: 12 Oct 2013

Edmund Burke Privy Council of the United Kingdom (12 January [NS] 1729[1]-- 9 July 1797) was an Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist and philosopher who, after moving to England, served for many years in the House of Commons of Great Britain as a member of the Whig party. He is mainly remembered for his support of the cause of the American Revolutionaries, and for his later opposition to the French Revolution. The latter led to his becoming the leading figure within the conservative faction of the Whig party, which he dubbed the "Old Whigs", in opposition to the pro--French Revolution "New Whigs", led by Charles James Fox. Burke was praised by both conservatives and liberals in the 19th century.[5] Since the 20th century, he has generally been viewed as the philosophical founder of modern conservatism,as well as a representative of classical liberalism. On 19 April 1774 Burke made a speech (published in January 1775) on a motion to repeal the tea duty: Again and again, revert to your old principles—seek peace and ensue it; leave America, if she has taxable matter in her, to tax herself. I am not here going into the distinctions of rights, nor attempting to mark their boundaries. I do not enter into these metaphysical distinctions; I hate the very sound of them. Leave the Americans as they anciently stood, and these distinctions, born of our unhappy contest, will die along with it.... Be content to bind America by laws of trade; you have always done it.... Do not burthen them with taxes.... But if intemperately, unwisely, fatally, you sophisticate and poison the very source of government by urging subtle deductions, and consequences odious to those you govern, from the unlimited and illimitable nature of supreme sovereignty, you will teach them by these means to call that sovereignty itself in question.... If that sovereignty and their freedom cannot be reconciled, which will they take? They will cast your sovereignty in your face. No body of men will be argued into slavery. Sir, let the gentlemen on the other side... tell me, what one character of liberty the Americans have, and what one brand of slavery they are free from, if they are bound in their property and industry by all the restraints you can imagine on commerce, and at the same time are made pack-horses of every tax you choose to impose, without the least share in granting them. When they bear the burthens of unlimited monopoly, will you bring them to bear the burthens of unlimited revenue too? The Englishman in America will feel that this is slavery; that it is legal slavery, will be no compensation either to his feelings or to his understandings. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy : http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/burke/ Edmund Burke Papers at Gettysburg College : http://www.gettysburg.edu/special_col... Archival material relating to Edmund Burke : http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nr... Burke's works at The Online Library of Liberty : http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?...

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Burke and Paine on Revolution

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Duration: 27:49
Updated: 25 Oct 2013

Monarchist Edmund Burke, one of England's most articulate conservatives of the 18th century, and pamphleteer Thomas Paine, a leading radical and revolutionary of the American Colonies, here attend an imaginary dinner party at the home of playwright Richard Sheridan. In the middle of the dinner, the servants take over the house, and upon the threat of death, these friendly adversaries are forced to defend their philosophies. Bernard Wilets directed and wrote a number of outstanding dramas based on historical political figures in his "Man and the State" series, and this is perhaps our favorite, not only for the exceptional acting and writing, but also for the terrific surprise ending. Director: Bernard Wilets Producer: Bernard Wilets Sponsor: David Nelson Audio/Visual: sound, color For more on Bernard Wilets, visit http://www.afana.org/wilets.htm

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Jesse Norman MP on Edmund Burke

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Duration: 25:49
Updated: 04 Jul 2013

Jesse Norman MP speaks on Edmund Burke at a Centre for Policy Studies event held at Sotheran's book store, Tuesday 2 July 2013.

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Edmund Burke - Top 10 Quotes

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Updated: 17 Jul 2013

The ten best quotes by the great Irish statesman, orator, writer and philosopher Edmund Burke! (1729 - 1797) See all quotes by Edmund Burke at http://www.ipe...

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Conservative Intellectual Tradition in America - Session 2

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Updated: 14 May 2013

Hosted at The Citadel. Topic: Edmund Burke and the Origins of Modern Conservatism Introduction: Professor Mallory Factor Guest Lecturer: David A. Norcross Mo...

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Edmund Burke School Boys Varsity Blackout Skit 2012-13

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André Moreira - Edmund Burke (parte 1)

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Updated: 26 Aug 2010

16º SIICUSP (Simpósio Internacional de Iniciação Científica da Universidade de São Paulo) Mesa de Teoria Política. Edmund Burke.

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Edmund Burke the Sublime and the Beautiful

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Updated: 17 Jul 2013

if you were ever an english major anywhere u read this; time to read it again for grad school!

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Edmund Burke - From A Speach In The House Of Commons 1783

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Edmund Burke PC (12 January 1729 -- 9 July 1797) was an Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist and philosopher who, after moving to England, ser...

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Quotes from Sir Edmund Burke

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Updated: 08 Aug 2013

This is another quotes video. I hope the music captures the man and the message. Enjoy.

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critique of the french revolution by edmund burke

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Landslide - Dixie Chicks Version - Edmund Burke School

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Updated: 01 Apr 2012

Edmund Burke School Bands performance of Landslide at Senior Day - resurrecting a song first played in 8th Grade.

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Edmund Burke School vs. Hebew Academy 2011-12 Basketball

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Josh Seligman #35.

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Meditation on Edmund Burke and The Sublime (1756)

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Number 81 in a series of 100 short Meditations on works of art, produced and uploaded each week by UK-born, Chicago-based artist Philip Hartigan.

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Creative Quotations from Edmund Burke for Jan 12

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A selection of quotations from Edmund Burke (1729-1797) to illustrate five components of the creative process. English statesman, orator and prominent politi...

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Savage Nation interviews Dr Grace Vuoto w/ Edmund Burke Institute

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The Savage Nation interviews Dr Grace Vuoto w/ Edmund Burke Institute.

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Reid Baer Interviews Edmund Burke (LIVE VIDEO)

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Reid Baer Interviews Edmund Burke in a LIVE VIDEO. All statements by Burke are documented quotes.

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EVIL TRIUMPHS... BECAUSE GOOD MEN DO NOTHING. (EDMUND BURKE) (Part 2 of 3).flv

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Updated: 04 Jul 2013

25th Sunday of ordinary time -- September 19, 2010 Jesus teaches in today's Gospel that as evil people are so creative and so energetic in advancing their ev...

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Edmund Burke History

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Updated: 01 Apr 2014

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Dick Roth Interview

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Updated: 10 Feb 2014

Excerpts from an interview with one of Burke's founders

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Egypt mass deaths: Muslim brotherhood leader Badie among hundreds sentenced to death

The Independent

28 Apr 2014

An Egyptian court has recommended the death sentence for the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood and 682 supporters, and handed down a final capital punishment ruling for 37 others, judicial sources said on Monday ... Reuters ... ....(size: 1.1Kb)

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Leader of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood Mohammed Badie, bottom center, and senior Brotherhood figurer Salah Soltan, right, gesture, during an appearance at a courtroom in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, April 1, 2014.

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Egypt condemned after court hands down 683 death sentences

Mail Guardian South Africa

29 Apr 2014

The United Nations and Washington have condemned death sentences handed to 683 alleged exremist Islamists, including Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie, in an Egyptian court Monday after a brief hearing. The court in the southern province of Minya sparked an international outcry with its initial sentencing last month, amid an extensive crackdown on supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi ... UN 'alarmed'....(size: 4.8Kb)

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Travel trailers and motor homes are piled on top of each other at Mayflower RV in Mayflower, Ark., Sunday, April 27, 2014.

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At least 12 killed as tornadoes rip through Arkansas, Oklahoma

Yahoo Daily News

28 Apr 2014

By Suzi Parker. LITTLE ROCK Ark. (Reuters) - Tornadoes ripped through the south-central United States on Sunday, killing at least 12 people in Arkansas and Oklahoma and wiping out entire neighborhoods, authorities said as rescue workers searched in darkness for survivors ... Another death was reported in neighboring Oklahoma ... "An entire neighborhood of 50 or so homes has been destroyed ... Representative Tim Griffin told Reuters....(size: 3.3Kb)

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‘Amateur’ leadership instincts more valuable than tactical strategy

The Dallas Morning News

28 Apr 2014

Throughout American history, most presidents had small personal staffs. They steered through political waters as amateurs, relying on experience, instinct and conversations with friends. Then candidates and presidents began to hire professionals to help them navigate public opinion ... Edmund Burke once wrote ... He ought to love and respect his kind, and to fear himself.” Burke was emphasizing that leadership is a passionate activity ... Movies....(size: 7.4Kb)

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Power, responsibility and road traffic enforcement in CDO

Sun Star

27 Apr 2014

THE creation of Task Force Hapsay Dalan to strictly enforce traffic discipline initially in Divisoria of this city following City Ordinance 10551-2007, though met with skepticism from some sectors, has been quite a success. Kudos to Mayor Oscar “Oca” Moreno, the city traffic czar Atty ... M. Recto highway ... As the Irish statesman Edmund Burke once declared, "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."....(size: 7.6Kb)

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Baroness Onora O’Neill Delivers Inaugural Burke Lecture (Trinity College Dublin - The University of Dublin)

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24 Apr 2014

Baroness O'Neill's lecture, What Would Edmund Burke Think About Human Rights?, was the inaugural Edmund Burke Lecture instituted by the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts & Humanities Research Institute to mark the university's deep connection with the 18th-century philosopher, historian and politician Edmund Burke ... "Scepticism about the Rights of Man played a central and memorable part in Edmund Burke's thought....(size: 4.7Kb)

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David Brooks: Leadership based on emotions, not tactics

Rocky Mount Telegram

24 Apr 2014

Throughout American history, most presidents had small personal staffs. They steered through political waters as amateurs, relying on experience, instinct and conversations with friends ... He was unscripted ... Edmund Burke once wrote, “The true lawgiver ought to have a heart full of sensibility. He ought to love and respect his kind, and to fear himself.” Burke was emphasizing that leadership is a passionate activity ... ....(size: 5.1Kb)

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America has conquered its debt crisis with incredible speed

The Daily Telegraph

24 Apr 2014

Related Articles. Europe braces for gas showdown with Russia 22 Apr 2014. Eight EU states in deflation 17 Apr 2014. US financial showdown with Russia is more dangerous than it looks, for both sides 16 Apr 2014. Germany warned EMU crisis as dangerous as ever 09 Apr 2014. Germany risks EU fines over current account 10 Apr 2014 ... That chapter is closed ... China is no longer gaining ... China embraces 'British Model', ditching Mao for Edmund Burke ... ....(size: 11.5Kb)

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Purge the Bigots (The Family Leader)

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23 Apr 2014

(Source. The Family Leader) ... You must be eliminated. When will our side wake up? Edmund Burke said "all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." ... distributed by ... (noodl....(size: 1.0Kb)

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David Brooks: A passionate stand can help leaders

Times Union

23 Apr 2014

Throughout American history, most presidents had small personal staffs. They steered through political waters as amateurs, relying on experience, instinct and conversations with friends. Then candidates and presidents hired professionals to help them navigate public opinion ... Edmund Burke once wrote, "The true lawgiver ought to have a heart full of sensibility ... Burke was emphasizing that leadership is a passionate activity ... ....(size: 5.1Kb)

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Circumstances require us to rethink human rights, says lecturer

The Irish Times

23 Apr 2014

Baroness Onora O’Neill, a philosopher and author born in Northern Ireland who is a crossbench member of the House of Lords and the chair of the UK’s Equality and Human Rights Commission, was delivering the inaugural Edmund Burke lecture, which will be an annual event to mark Trinity’s connection with the 18th-century philosopher, historian and politician ... Interpretations ... ... . to secure respect for or to realise rights,” she said ... ....(size: 2.7Kb)

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Brooks: When leadership emotions get amputated

The State

23 Apr 2014

Throughout American history, most presidents had small personal staffs. They steered through political waters as amateurs, relying on experience, instinct and conversations with friends ... He was unscripted ... Edmund Burke once wrote, “The true lawgiver ought to have a heart full of sensibility. He ought to love and respect his kind, and to fear himself.” Burke was emphasizing that leadership is a passionate activity ... Email Mr ... ....(size: 5.2Kb)

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Racism is a Moral Issue (Australian Human Rights Commission)

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23 Apr 2014

(Source. Australian Human Rights Commission). In my job as Race Discrimination Commissioner I am often asked how you should respond to an incident of racism. Imagine being at work and overhearing a colleague making a disparaging comment about someone's racial background ... They concern moral judgment, reasoning and development ... The seminal conservative thinker Edmund Burke wrote about the "delightful horror" of the sublime....(size: 36.0Kb)

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Today’s top opinion: Chesterfield taxes — judgment

Richmond Times Dispatch

22 Apr 2014

Edmund Burke, the parliamentarian considered the father of political conservatism, defined the obligations of elected officials in ......(size: 0.7Kb)

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Council to advise public on erosion

Buffalo News

22 Apr 2014

The Newstead Conservation Advisory Council will update the public on efforts to stabilize the slopes around Murder Creek at 2 p.m ... Murder Creek, a small waterway that crawls through the Newstead-Akron region, has demanded vigilant attention since the October storm of 2006, explained the advisory group’s chairman, Carl Klingenschmitt, and another member, Edmund Burke ... Those repairs will take place this summer. Also in Newstead. ... ....(size: 1.9Kb)

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Newstead conservation council to advise public on creek erosion

Buffalo News

22 Apr 2014

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The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left

19. The Burkean Outlook

Edmund Burke: Philosopher, Politician, Prophet

Edmund Burke mini lecture

Who Was Edmund Burke?

Levin Talks About Thomas Paine and Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke: Philosopher, Politician, Prophet by Jesse Norman MP | 20.06.2013

What's the Modern Definition of a Conservative?

Greatest Speeches in History Edmund Burke

Burke and Paine on Revolution

Jesse Norman MP on Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke - Top 10 Quotes

Conservative Intellectual Tradition in America - Session 2

Edmund Burke School Boys Varsity Blackout Skit 2012-13

'Edmund Burke' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:

Red Rose (2005)

Actors

Genres

Longitude (2000)

Actors

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Quotes:

America (1924)

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Famous quotes by Edmund Burke:

"Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who does nothing because he could only do a little"

"Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting."

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing"

"In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority"

"Education is the cheap defense of nations"

"Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it."

"No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear."

"All that's necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing."

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

"A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman."

"What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man."

"A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors."

"People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors."

"I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business."

"Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver."

"But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever."

"Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together."

"Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed."

"Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits."

Make changes yourself !

Make changes yourself !

The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left

19. The Burkean Outlook

Edmund Burke: Philosopher, Politician, Prophet

Edmund Burke mini lecture

Who Was Edmund Burke?

Levin Talks About Thomas Paine and Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke: Philosopher, Politician, Prophet by Jesse Norman MP | 20.06.2013

What's the Modern Definition of a Conservative?

Greatest Speeches in History Edmund Burke

Burke and Paine on Revolution

Jesse Norman MP on Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke - Top 10 Quotes

Conservative Intellectual Tradition in America - Session 2

Edmund Burke School Boys Varsity Blackout Skit 2012-13

André Moreira - Edmund Burke (parte 1)

Edmund Burke the Sublime and the Beautiful

Edmund Burke - From A Speach In The House Of Commons 1783

Quotes from Sir Edmund Burke

Savage Nation interviews Dr Grace Vuoto w/ Edmund Burke Institute

Reid Baer Interviews Edmund Burke (LIVE VIDEO)

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