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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.

Edmund Burke

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Edmund Burke
Age: 68 †
Born: 1729
Born: January 12
Died: 1797
Died: July 9
Philosopher
Politician
Statesman
Writer
Dublin city
Money
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Equity
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Debt

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All the forces of darkness need to succeed ... is for the people to do nothing.
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Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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By this unprincipled facility of changing the state as often, and as much, and in as many ways as there are floating fancies or fashions, the whole chain and continuity of the commonwealth would be broken. No one generation could link with the other. Men would become little better than the flies of a summer.
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A nation without means of reform is without means of survival.
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Men have no right to what is not reasonable, and to what is not for their benefit.
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Despots govern by terror. They know that he who fears God fears nothing else and therefore they eradicate from the mind, through their Voltaire, their Helvetius, and the rest of that infamous gang, that only sort of fear which generates true courage.
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Ambition can creep as well as soar.
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Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.
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Between craft and credulity, the voice of reason is stifled.
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The march of the human mind is slow.
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A thing may look specious in theory, and yet be ruinous in practice a thing may look evil in theory, and yet be in practice excellent.
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We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us.
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