It\u2019s the birthday of Edmund Burke<\/a><\/strong>, (books by this author<\/a>) born in Dublin (1729). His father was a Protestant lawyer and his mother was Catholic. Burke studied law at university, but when he gave it up to study literature, his father withdrew Edmund\u2019s allowance\u2026<\/p>\n So Burke started writing in order to make some money. He became the assistant to the Secretary of Ireland, and then a Member of Parliament, representing the district of Bristol in the House of Commons. And he became a famous reformer. He opposed what he considered the tyranny of the British monarchy. He supported the American colonists\u2019 anti-British sentiments \u2014 he didn\u2019t think they should be granted full independence, but he thought that Britain should take a hands-off approach to America. He argued passionately against the Stamp Act, which was an effort by the British to fund their actions in America by taxing the colonists themselves.<\/p>\n Edmund Burke was famous for his passionate oratory, which one biographer described as \u201cimpressive rather than effectual.\u201d A critic wrote that \u201cone of the paradoxes of Burke\u2019s career is the gap between his acknowledged eloquence admitted even by his firmest opponents and his habitual inability to persuade.\u201d<\/p>\n Edmund Burke said, \u201cAll that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
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