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Edmund Burke
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  • In the House of Commons, Colonel Isaac Barre, Lord Cavendish, and Edmund Burke spoke severely against the administration, as Lord North and Lord Germain defended the management of the war.†   (source)
  • But in striking contrast, several of the most powerful speakers in Parliament, like the flamboyant Lord Mayor of London, John Wilkes, and the leading Whig intellectual, Edmund Burke, had voiced ardent support for and admiration of the Americans.†   (source)
  • If Edmund Burke had failed to provide a memorable line for the night's efforts, Fox did at once : Lord Chatham, the King of Prussia, nay, Alexander the Great, never gained more in one campaign than the noble lord has lost—he has lost a whole continent.†   (source)
  • Our oath of office is administered by the Vice President, not by the Governors of our respective states; and we come to Washington, to paraphrase Edmund Burke, not as hostile ambassadors or special pleaders for our state or section, in opposition to advocates and agents of other areas, but as members of the deliberative assembly of one nation with one interest.†   (source)
  • Tom Paine has triumphed over Edmund Burke; and the swine are now courted electors.†   (source)
  • EDMUND BURKE'S REFERENCE IN PARLIAMENT TO THE NANTUCKET WHALE-FISHERY.†   (source)
  • EDMUND BURKE.†   (source)
  • Who, but Edmund Burke!†   (source)
  • Why not bring in Henry Grattan and Flood and Demosthenes and Edmund Burke?†   (source)
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