3 Edmund Burke Quotes on Economy

Edmund Burke quotes on economy

35. Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

36. Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but selection. Parsimony requires no providence, no sagacity, no powers of combination, no comparison, no judgment.

64. Young man, there is America - which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners; yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.