Custom reconciles us to everything.

Weitere Zitate von Edmund Burke

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

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

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

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

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

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