Edmund Burke Statue

Not really much to this one but having a walk around Bristol finding sculptures and status this was another nice one although the detail wasn't great and not really anything about him on this statue it's still enjoyable to look at and has a quote on it.

The statue doesn't have much in way of detail of the person nor is there anything more than a simple quote from him that reads "I wish to be a member of Parliament to have my share of doing good and resisting evil".

He once said, that " The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing" How true,...Such a man should be celebrated. Burke was the MP for Bristol. a hugely influential Anglo-Irish politician, orator and political thinker, notable for his strong support for the American Revolution and his fierce opposition to the French Revolution.. He became a member of parliament in 1765. He was closely involved in debates over limits to the power of the king, pressing for parliamentary control of royal patronage and expenditure .Britain's imposition on America of measures including the Stamp Act in 1765 provoked violent colonial opposition. Burke argued that British policy had been inflexible and called for more pragmatism. He believed that government should be a cooperative relationship between rulers and subjects and that, while the past was important, a willingness to adapt to the inevitability of change could, hopefully, reaffirm traditional values under new circumstances. The outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789 gave Burke his greatest target. He expressed his hostility in 'Reflections on the Revolution in France' 1790. The book provoked a huge response, including Thomas Paine's 'The Rights of Man'. Burke emphasised the dangers of mob rule, fearing that the Revolution's fervour was destroying French society. He appealed to the British virtues of continuity, tradition, rank and property and opposed the Revolution to the end of his life. His arguments for long-lived constitutional conventions, political parties, and the independence of an MP once elected still carry weight. He is justly regarded as one of the founders of the British parliamentarian tradition. The bullet holes are the result of Luftwaffe who raked the area with machine gun fire in the hope of hitting innocent Bristolian's...and destroying free speech, somehow very fitting...

Translated by Google Edmund rules! Original Edmund rządzi!