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

Edmund Burke (1729-1797) Anglo-Irish statesman, orator, philosopher

Letters on a Regicide Peace, Letter 1 “On the Overtures of Peace” (1796)
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The first letter -- on the Pitt government's efforts to negotiate a peace with Revolutionary France -- was written in January 1796, but not published (with the second) until October.