Edmund Burke Quotes About Wealth
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It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.
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The superfluities of a rich nation furnish a better object of trade than the necessities of a poor one. It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
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The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends most to the perpetuation of society itself. It makes our weakness subservient to our virtue; it grafts benevolence even upon avarice. The possession of family wealth and of the distinction which attends hereditary possessions (as most concerned in it,) are the natural securities for this transmission.
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For as wealth is power, so all power will infallibly draw wealth to itself by some means or other; and when men are left no way of ascertaining their profits but by their means of obtaining them, those means will be increased to infinity.
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