title: Speech on Conciliation with America
author:  Edmund Burke 
description: With extensive knowledge of political affairs, Edmund Burke possessed a glowing imagination and passionate sympathies expressed in his landmark speeches, which continue to captivate contemporary readers. The best of Burke's writings and speeches uphold his position on the need for rigorous constitutional statesmanship against widespread abuse of authority in government. He remains one of the foremost political thinkers of eighteenth-century England.
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  Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America
  
  
  [PREFACE](Burke%27s%20Speech%20on%20Conciliation_split_001.html#filepos2814)
  
  [INTRODUCTION. POLITICAL
  SITUATION](Burke%27s%20Speech%20on%20Conciliation_split_001.html#filepos3597)
  
  [EDMUND
  BURKE](Burke%27s%20Speech%20on%20Conciliation_split_001.html#filepos12370)
  
  [BURKE AS A
  STATESMAN](Burke%27s%20Speech%20on%20Conciliation_split_001.html#filepos30293)
  
  [BURKE IN
  LITERATURE](Burke%27s%20Speech%20on%20Conciliation_split_001.html#filepos37391)
  
  [ON MOVING HIS RESOLUTIONS FOR CONCILIATION WITH
  
  
  THE COLONIES. HOUSE OF COMMONS, MARCH 22, 1775
  
  [FOOTNOTES](Burke%27s%20Speech%20on%20Conciliation_split_001.html#filepos195641)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America
  
  
  ### Edmund Burke
  
  
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