Edmund Burke — "Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their im…"

Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field; or that, necessarily, they are even the most numerous.
Edmund Burke — Edmund Burke Early Modern · Conservatism founder

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Reflections on the Revolution in France, Part I

Date: 1790

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