Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.
Weitere Zitate von Edmund Burke
Zum Autor"Custom reconciles us to everything."
"Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing."
"It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions."
"It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact."
"We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us."
"Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society."