For, Gentlemen, it is not your fond desires or mine that can alter the nature of things; by contending against which, what have we got, or shall ever get, but defeat and shame?
Edmund Burke: “For, Gentlemen, it is not your fond desires or mine that can alter the nature of things; by contending against which…”
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Burke asserts that desires cannot change reality, emphasizing the inevitability of defeat when opposing nature.
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