Edmund Burke Statue

We passed by a small park with this statue today on the walk from the Convention Center to the car. There was also an anti war protest going on in Penn Quarter so I asked some protesters to pose in front of the statue. Little did I know how appropriate that was.
Edmund Burke was British, but he was a great ally to the US during the Revolutionary War. He is known by many historians as a founding father of the modern conservative movement. Burke supported the original American colonies in their quest to separate from Britain.
One notable thing about the inscription on the statue is that a «v» replaces the «u» in Burke’s name. This is because it is done in an old Latin style, which also does not use a man’s first name.