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Quotes from Thoughts and Details on Scarcity — Edmund Burke

1729–1797 Ireland

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Without all doubt, charity to the poor is a direct and obligatory duty upon all Christians.

Thoughts and Details on Scarcity (1795)

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

Thoughts and Details on Scarcity (1795)

And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.

Thoughts and Details on Scarcity (1795)

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations — wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.

Thoughts and Details on Scarcity (1795)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Edmund Burke (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.