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