He was conservative because he cared for their past, and liberal because he cared for their future.

But he was much more than this.

He had two forms of moral manhood very rare in our time: he was ready to uproot ancient successes, and he was ready to defy oncoming doom.

Burke said that few are the partisans of a tyranny that has departed: he might have added that fewer still are the critics of a tyranny that has remained.

Burke certainly was not one of them.