If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.Edmund Burke
Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
Edmund Burke
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, to not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field that, of course, they are many in number or that, after all, they are other than the little, shriveled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour.
Edmund Burke
It is one of the finest problems in legislation, what the state ought to take upon itself to direct and what it ought to leave, with as little interference as possible, to individual discretion
Edmund Burke
All that's necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke
The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.
Edmund Burke
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