A statesman's impassioned warning that the Revolution's abstract rights will devour tradition, order, and liberty itself.
Books that mention Reflections on the Revolution in France (4)
Bushido: The Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe: “It is a pleasure to me to reflect upon this subject in the language of Burke, who uttered the well-known touching eulogy over the neglected bier of its European prototype.”
The Last Man by Mary Shelley: “[5] Burke's Reflections on the French Revolution.”
Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow: “In 1791 he published The Rights of Man as a response to Edmund Burke’s influential denunciation, Reflections on the Revolution in France.”
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn: “Edmund Burke, who had written in his Reflections on the Revolution in France that 'a woman is but an animal...'”