Edmund Burke: “If we were to admit the truth of it, we must entirely change our ideas…”

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If we were to admit the truth of it, we must entirely change our ideas concerning the quantity of money which then circulated in Europe.

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Edmund Burke

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Burke argues that accepting certain historical claims would require a fundamental shift in our understanding of European monetary circulation.

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Let us imitate their caution, if we wish to deserve their fortune or to retain their bequests.

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The only difference among their financial factions is on the greater or the lesser quantity of assignats to be imposed on the public sufferance.

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They will become flatterers instead of legislators,--the instruments, not the guides of the people.

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They come from one who has been no tool of power, no flatterer of greatness, and who in his last acts does not wish to belie the tenor of his life.

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Edmund Burke: “If we were to admit the truth of it, we must entirely change our ideas concerning the quantity of money which then…”