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