What Edmund Burke thinks about happiness

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Irish-born British statesman and political philosopher (1729 to 1797); author of Reflections on the Revolution in France.

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1. 22 Mar 1775

   Our readingLiberty never exists in the abstract but attaches to something concrete

   Their wordsAbstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found. Liberty inheres in some sensible object; and every nation has formed to itself some favorite point, which by way of eminence becomes the criterion of their happiness.

   ↗Speech on Conciliation with America (22 March 1775)gutenberg.org All 18 from this book