Because much rewriting of history is destroying the truth.
Edmund Burke
Father of Conservatism
Biography
EDMUND BURKE PC (January 12, 1729 – July 9, 1797) was an Irish statesman born in Dublin; author, orator, political theorist, and philosopher, who, after moving to England, served for many years in the House of Commons of Great Britain as a member of the Whig party. Mainly, he is remembered for his support of the cause of the American Revolutionaries, Catholic emancipation, the impeachment of Warren Hastings from the East India Company, and for his later opposition to the French Revolution. Burke was praised by both conservatives and liberals in the nineteenth century. Since the twentieth century, he has generally been viewed as the philosophical founder of conservatism.
“Facts Are Stubborn Things”
~ John Adams, 2nd U.S. President