We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us.
Weitere Zitate von Edmund Burke
Zum Autor"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants."
"Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist."
"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."
"Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing."