But to do justice to the club, I believe the gentlemen who compose it to be wiser than they appear,--that they will be less liberal of their money than of their addresses, and that they would not give a dog's ear of their most rumpled and ragged Scotch paper for twenty of your fairest assignats.
Burke acknowledges the intelligence of the club members, suggesting they are cautious with their finances despite their public bravado.
Share
More from Edmund Burke
I would not exclude alteration neither; but even when I changed, it should be to preserve.
It was not made to entice the smell of a mole, nuzzling and burying himself in his mother earth, as yours is.
Who but the most desperate adventurers in philosophy and finance could at all have thought of destroying the settled revenue of the state, the sole security for the public credit, in the hope of rebuilding it with the materials of…
Whatever they are, I wish my countrymen rather to recommend to our neighbors the example of the British Constitution than to take models from them for the improvement of our own.
Other voices in this conversation
