Moments, indeed, there are of a deeper vision, and it is not untrue to say that the best answer to Burke's conservatism is to be found in his own pages.

But he was too much the apostle of order to watch with calm the struggles involved in the overthrow of privilege.

He had too much the sense of a Divine Providence taking thought for the welfare of men to interfere with violence in his handiwork.

The tinge of caution is never absent, even from his most liberal moments; and he was willing to endure great evil if it seemed dangerous to estimate the cost of change.
His American speeches are the true text-book for colonial administration.

He put aside the empty plea of right which satisfied legal pedants like George Grenville.