he turned edmund burke's vision in any direction he chose.imbued biblical subjects lie the fifth plague of egypt with the awesome power of nature's destructive forces. the swirling mists of the alpine blizzard that the carthaginian general hannibal and his army encountered while crossing into italy merged the sublime with the vaunted genre of history painting. turner was always attentive to his career. he had opened a gallery of his own where he could show his works-- and keep the sales commissions. the 31 year-old painter was appointed professor of perspective at the royal academy. he used that pulpit to promote the possibilities of landscape painting as equal to history painting, urging his students by saying-- (reader) "to select combine and concentrate that which is beautiful in nature and admirable in art is as much the business of the landscape painter in his line as in the other departments of art." (narrator) turner lived through one of the most patriotic periods in british history. the french revolution descended into violence. louis

conservative is deliberately or at least in the classical sense in edmund burke is not systematic. they have good reasons for being nonsystematic. life is too con flex. or to be reducible to left liberal most trum we have impose on the whole world. life is too variated and we have to be -- we have to use experience, we have -- and we have to use our knowledge of the past, and then move cautiously. they would view -- you see i speak with some sympathy. they would view the libertarian as a hopeless who wants to force the whole world to confirm to the one principle. my sympathy for the libertarian position is at least i can pin it down. sometimes trying to identify who is a real conservative, what's the screft position? it's like nailing jelly to a wall. >> you write that federal bankruptcy in short may turn out to be one of the best things that happened to america. >> yeah. i got in trouble for saying that. how dare this guy say that. when i say that federal bankruptcy may be a good thing. let's thoi the sense that any bankruptcy is a good thing. the owner of the a brument firm are n

it is perhaps one definition of dorkdom that one would wish one had spent more time on edmund burke. [laughter] so i'm not really sure if i appreciate your making me out myself quite so vividly. [laughter] but thank you. [laughter] utah to the jefferson's fox and his role in perpetuating slavery and i wonder how he would evaluate his thinking and his action regarding american indians. >> he was complicity in the tragedies of american life. the removal of native americans. andrew jackson gets the lion's share of the blame but one of my arguments about jackson was and is jackson may have been on the extreme edge of the mainstream but he was in the mainstream on this issue. congress had a great battle over the indian removal in 18:30 a.m. he was one of the most ferocious legislative battles of the first 60 years of the republic but then they never revisited. they fought it out, the jackson administration won and that was that so jefferson set up a predicate and was a president for what ultimately happened. you know the only person who comes out well enough story is someone who is very l

mr edmund burke back in the late eighteenth century you know thomas paine went over to england on his way to the french revolution and spent two weeks from burke's home and ended up with these huge fight that he literally wrote a book as a rebuttal to burn which was which was the rights of man and burke rather famously said words to the effect of i'm probably doing this badly from memory but it does mean no harm if a man wants to engage in a profession as serve as that of tallow maker or hairdresser but it does society considerable violence of such a man is allowed to participate in governance in other ways we vote how is burke who is considered the godfather of american conservatism russell kirk and in his book all those mind opens it with those people have nothing more to do can with conservatism than lenin i mean they they don't nothing that people like and ran during you know control or conservative heroes and of course she was not conservative at all but keep in mind that the founding fathers basically held this view right i mean back in those days you had to be a male property o

met with more capital to fight the fire and i don't see how we get out of this until you know edmund burke an eighteenth century predicted the french revolution you know no one believed them. well we'll have to see how this plays out heading into two thousand and thirteen but i certainly appreciate you being here and sharing your views thanks so much you're well. ok it's friday let's wrap up with your feedback earlier this week we interviewed the main man behind dad tad the gold antitrust action committee here's just one issue we covered. the law authorizes the united states to train stabilization fund to train she quickly in the gold markets and any other market that the treasury secretary decides you want to get into but because we don't know it. and to that richard powell on facebook said i hope you air this comment on your feedback on friday's show which we are we've got is bill murphy and chris powell warned you had this what on earth are you talking about look when chris was explaining about the treasury's exchange stabilization fund and why the u.s. government is able to manipulate

republic and i mean this is what george will is saying is the exact same thing in essence that sir edmund burke said when thomas paine went over and having such a huge pissing match with him in the two weeks of the state as i was on his way to go get a rest of the french revolution and that paine wrote the entire book the rights of man as a rebuttal to it. if i've got this right he said it does me no harm if a man is allowed to engage as serve aisle a profession as a hairdresser or tallow maker cattle maker but it does society considerable violence of such a man is allowed to participate in governance by voting how is this not different from that and that was a debate we thought we settled in seventy and eighty seven i think a lot of this sort of so-called voter suppression is basically we just want to make sure that you are you are who you claim to be and that we know you know that there are thousands of people registered in florida in new york and we don't lose out anything no thank you motor fraud. i don't know that there's a mistake and there's a problem to be thought so why is it a problem

it is perhaps one definition of dorkb dom, sir, that one would wish one had spent more time on edmund burke. so i'm not really sure if i appreciate your making me out myself -- [laughter] quite so vividly. but thank you. [laughter] >> hi. >> hi. >> so you've talked about, um, jefferson's thoughts and his role in perpetuating slavery. i wonder how you would evaluate his, um, his thinking and his action regarding american indians? >> he was complicit in the twin tragedies of american life; the removal of native americans. andrew jackson gets the lion's share of the blame. but one of my arguments about jackson was and is that jackson may have been on the extreme edge of the mainstream, but he was in the mainstream on this issue. you know, congress had one great battle over indian removal in 1830, and it was one of the ferocious legislative battles of the first 60 years of the republic. but then they never revisited it, you know? they fought it out. the jackson administration won, and that was that. and so jefferson set up a predicate for, and can was a precedent for what ultimately happened. y

was declaring independence and launching our great experiment in constitutional self-government, edmund burke sought to conserve the conditions under which liberty flourished. to this anti exposed to the errors of depending on abstract theory for guidance and practical affairs. he talked of primacy and political like of prudence, a judgment born of experience pound above circumstances in britain action. he maintains a good policy and laws must be fitted to the people's moral sentiment an opinion. he demonstrated that the politics, imperfections of human nature must be taken into account and virtue must be respected. he showed the political moderation frequently reject the path of least resistance and political moderation is sometimes exercised in defending principles staunchly against majority opinion. madison's word an example is pertinent and our time as they weren't around. today's conservatives should he then, come to grips with too entrenched realities, post genuine challenge to liberty and his prudent management is critical to the nation's well-being. the first interest reality, forgive

it requires leaders to believe, like edmund burke the first responsibility to their constituents apply best judgment. it is possible to be elected and reelected again and again and to gain prominence in the senate by giving very little thought to governance. one kid even gain considerable notoriety by devoting one's career the political aspects of the senators job mainly providing the plot -- promoting a party line raising money focusing on public relations. responsibility for legislative shortcomings can be penned on the other party or even intractable members of one's own party. none of us are above politics nor the founders expected to be. but obviously we should be aspiring for something greater than this. too often in recent years the members of congress have locked themselves into a slate of inflexible positions many of which have no hope of being implemented in a divided government. some of these positions have been further calcified by pledges signed for political purposes. too often we have failed to listen to one another and question whether the orthodox views being promulgat

it reqres leaders who believe like edmund burke that their first responsibility to their constituents is to apply their best judgment. it is possible to be elected and re-elected aga and again and gain prominence in the senate while giving very ltle thought to governance. east one can even gained considerable notoriety by devoting -- one can even gained -- gain considerable notoriety by raising money, focusing on public relations. responsibility for legislative shortcomings can be pinned on the other party or even on members of one's own party. none of us is above politics, nor did the founders expect us to be, but we should be aspiring to something greater than this. too often in recent years, members of congress have locked themselves in inflexible positions, many of which have no hope of being implemented in a divided government, and se of these positions have been further calcified by pledges signed for political purposes. too often, we have failed to listen to each other and questioned the views being promulgated by our parties, whether they make strategic sense for our country's