NationStates Jolt Archive


Edmund Burke or Thomas Paine?

Neo Kervoskia
03-02-2006, 21:56
Which one do you agree with the most/fits your views?
Grand Maritoll
03-02-2006, 22:05
I tend to side more with Burke, but I am very fond of one of Paine's quotes:

"To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead."

-Thomas Paine
Neo Kervoskia
03-02-2006, 22:16
I tend to side more with Burke, but I am very fond of one of Paine's quotes:

"To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead."

-Thomas Paine
Why, specifically, do you side with Burke?
Blizantia
03-02-2006, 22:28
I like Burke myself. My favorite quote by him is: "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."