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If you must employ your strength, employ it to uphold you in some honorable right or some profitable wrong.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “If you must employ your strength, employ it to uphold you in some honorable right or some profitable wrong.”
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Burke advises that if strength must be used, it should support honorable rights or profitable wrongs.
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