If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

Wealth should not command us

Edmund Burke

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848 No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
744 In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.
746 There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
810 Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.
733 The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

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