If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
Edward Burke – Irish-British writer (1729-1797), in his letter “On the overtures of peace”, the first of “three letters to a member of the present parliament on the proposal for peace with the regicide directory od France” (published 1796), published in “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: A New Edition”, volume 5 (1801)