Edmund Burke

"It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact."

"It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions."

"Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society."

"Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist."

"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants."

"Custom reconciles us to everything."

"We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us."

"Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing."