“Burke saw his position as hardheaded and pragmatic. In 1772 he wrote to an ally in Parliament, the Duke of Richmond, “You people of great families and hereditary trusts and fortunes are not like such as I am. … We are but annual plants that perish with our season and leave no sort of traces behind us. You, if you are what you ought to be, are the great oaks that shade a country and perpetuate your benefits from generation to generation.†Damrosch, Leo. The Club (Kindle Locations 3023-3026). Yale University Press. Kindle Edition. ”
