“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."[Preface to Brissot's Address to His Constituents (1794)]”
Edmund Burke
On Empire, Liberty, and Reform: Speeches and Letters
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