But the throats of the rich ought not to be cut, nor their magazines plundered; because, in their persons, they are trustees for those who labor, and their hoards are the banking-houses of these latter.
Burke defends the role of the wealthy as stewards for the laboring classes, arguing against violent redistribution of wealth.
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