# Thomas Paine Versus Edmund Burke, Part 6 **URL:** **By** George H. Smith **Published:** January 11, 2017 --- How the libertarian ideas of Richard Price motivated Burke to write Reflections on the Revolution in France, and how Paine dealt with the controversy. [Originally published in essay form on May 30, 2014.](https://www.libertarianism.org/columns/thomas-paine-versus-edmund-burke-part-6) _Narrated by Daniel Hyland._