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1 " If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free: if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. "
― Edmund Burke , The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12)
2 " We ought with reverence to approach that tremendous divinity, that loves courage, but commands counsel. "
3 " the bitter heart-burnings, and the war of tongues, which is so often the prelude to other wars. "
4 " I wished to warn the people against the greatest of all evils,—a blind and furious spirit of innovation, under the name of reform. "
5 " all virtues are not equally becoming to all men and at all times. "
6 " We are not made at once to pity the oppressor and the oppressed. "