"As for politics I leave you as my legacy the request that you will read Burke's speeches from 1790 to 1795. They are the law and the prophets."
— Edmund Burke

January 1, 1970

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Lord Acton to Richard Simpson (4 February 1859), quoted in Abbot Gasqeut (ed.), Lord Acton and His Circle (1906), p. 60