James Burgh Quotes


If you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once to what it teaches.


Citations

Burgh, James. The Dignity of Human Nature. J. and P. Knapton, 1754.

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James Burgh (1714–1775) was a British Whig politician whose book Political Disquisitions set out an early case for free speech and universal suffrage: in it, he writes, "All lawful authority, legislative, and executive, originates from the people." He has been judged "one of England's foremost propagandists for radical reform".