Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.
Weitere Zitate von Edmund Burke
Zum Autor"Custom reconciles us to everything."
"Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society."
"It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact."
"We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us."
"Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist."
"It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions."