Edmund Burke:
(Dublin, 12 January 1729 – Beaconsfield, 9 July 1797).
British-Irish philosopher and politician considered the founder of modern conservatism. For the liberal Whigs, he sat in the House of Commons for more than 30 years. Burke is best known for his vigorous opposition to the French Revolution, which he saw as a consequence of the Enlightenment. Above reason, he valued organically grown and divinely sanctioned tradition.
But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
studio of Joshua Reynolds ( 1723 – 1792 ).
Freedom without wisdom is debauchery.
