timid piety, which utterly disqualifies for government; - Edmund Burke

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timid piety, which utterly disqualifies for government;

Edmund Burke

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 · May 12, 2012 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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Edmund Burke (12 January 1729 – 9 July 1797) was a British and Irish statesman and philosopher. Born in Dublin, Burke served as a member of parliament (MP) between 1766 and 1794 in the House of Commons of Great Britain with the Whig Party after moving to London in 1750.

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A state without the means of some change, is without the means of its own conservation.

Your settlement may be at hand; But that it is still at some distance is more likely. The French may be yet to go through more transmigrations. They may pass, as one of our Poets says, “thro' many varieties of untried being,” before their State obtains its final form.

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