On the record
I have done all I could to discountenance their inquiries into the fortunes of those who hold large portions of wealth without any apparent merit of their own.
Said by
Edmund Burke
Source
gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “I have done all I could to discountenance their inquiries into the fortunes of those who hold large portions of wealth…”
Editor's note · Context
Burke critiques the lack of merit among the wealthy and their entitlement to wealth.
Share
More from Edmund Burke
Jan 1, 1790
The House of Lords, for instance, is not morally competent to dissolve the House of Commons,--no, nor even to dissolve itself, nor to abdicate, if it would, its portion in the legislature of the kingdom.
Jan 1, 1790
Their objects would be enlarged with their elevation; but their disposition, and habits, and mode of accomplishing their designs must remain the same.
Jan 1, 1790
So far is it from being true that we acquired a right by the Revolution to elect our kings, that, if we had possessed it before, the English nation did at that time most solemnly renounce and abdicate it, for themselves, and for all their…
Jan 1, 1790
If kings who did not owe their crown to the choice of their people had no title to make laws, what will become of the statute De tallagio non concedendo? of the Petition of Right? of the act of Habeas Corpus?
Other voices in this conversation
