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Categories: Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies, 18th-century Irish male writers, Anglican philosophers, 18th-century Anglo-Irish people, Alumni of Trinity College, Dublin
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Burke  Edmund Burke  All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing  Burke, Edmund  Burkean
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British statesman famous for his oratory; pleaded the cause of the American colonists in British Parliament and defended the parliamentary system (1729-1797) WordNet 3.0
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British statesman famous for his oratory; pleaded the cause of the American colonists in British Parliament and defended the parliamentary system (1729-1797) WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Edmund Burke was an Anglo-Irish statesman, economist, and philosopher. Wikipedia
18th century politician commonly referenced as simply "Burke" Wikipedia Disambiguation
Anglo-Irish statesman and political theorist Wikidata
IS A
statesman
orator
national leader
homo
ARCHIVES AT
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
CANDIDACY IN ELECTION
1784 British general election
1790 British general election
1780 British general election
1774 British general election
1768 British general election
COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
Kingdom of Ireland
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Nordisk familjebok
Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography
The Nuttall Encyclopædia
Obalky knih.cz
EDUCATED AT
Trinity College, Dublin
EMPLOYER
University of Glasgow
FAMILY NAME
Burke
GIVEN NAME
Edmund
INFLUENCED BY
Aristotle
Montesquieu
Church Father
Cicero
Hume
+3 relations
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
English
MEDICAL CONDITION
asthma
MEMBER OF POLITICAL PARTY
Whig
Rockingham Whigs
MOVEMENT
counterrevolutionist
liberal conservatism
NOTABLE WORK
Reflections on the Revolution in France
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
OCCUPATION
writer
philosopher
politician
PLACE OF BIRTH
Dublin
PLACE OF DEATH
Beaconsfield
POLITICAL ALIGNMENT
conservatism
liberalism
RELIGION
Church of Ireland
SEX OR GENDER
male
WRITING LANGUAGE
English
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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Burke, Edmund Burke
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Edmund Burke
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Edmund Burke
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All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing, Burke, Edmund, Burkean, Burkean conservatism, Burkean conservative, Burkeans, E. Burke, Edmond Burke, Edmund burk, Right Honourable Edmund Burke, The only thing necessary for evil to triumph in the world is that good men do nothing, When good men do nothing

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