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" If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. "
Edmund Burke
Money
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Us
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" What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man. "
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" A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman. "
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" The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. "
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" I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business. "
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" Free trade is not based on utility but on justice. "
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" Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair. "
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" The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations. "
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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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" Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society. "
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" Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind. "
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" All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice. "
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