Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Edmund Burke

English Statesman, Orator, Writer and Political Theorist

"The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts."

"There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution, but of fear."