"Insignificancy" Quotes from Famous Books
... must take care not to be mistaken, or to imagine that such persons have any weight in their opposition. When, by them, administration is convinced of its insignificancy, they are soon to be convinced of their own. They never are suffered to succeed in their opposition. They and the world are to be satisfied, that neither office, nor authority, nor property, nor ability, eloquence, ... — The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. I. (of 12) • Edmund Burke |