Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.
Weitere Zitate von Edmund Burke
Zum Autor"It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions."
"Custom reconciles us to everything."
"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants."
"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."
"It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact."