Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.
Weitere Zitate von Edmund Burke
Zum Autor"Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing."
"Custom reconciles us to everything."
"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."
"It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact."