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" And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity, they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. "
The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke - Page 156
by Edmund Burke - 1877
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Thoughts and Details on Scarcity: Originally Presented to the Right Hon ...

Edmund Burke - Corn laws (Great Britain) - 1800 - 76 pages
...fatisried to have it otherwife. And, having looked to Government for bread, on the very firft fcarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. To avoid that evil, Government will redouble the caufes of it ; and then it will become inveterate and incurable. 1 bcfeech the Government (which I...
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The Works of ... Edmund Burke, Volume 7

Edmund Burke - English literature - 1803 - 438 pages
...fatisfied to have it otherwife. And having looked to government for bread, on the very firft fear city they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. To avoid that evil, government will redouble the caufes of D d 2 it} it; and then it will become inveterate and incurs able. I befeech the government...
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Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with ..., Volume 2

Edmund Burke - 1804 - 212 pages
...though but for one half-year, they will never be satisfied to have it otherwise. And, having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity...turn and bite the hand that fed them. To avoid that eoil, Government will redouble the causes of it ; and then it will become inveterate and incurable....
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Maxims, Opinions and Characters, Moral, Political, and Economical, Volume 2

Edmond Burke - English literature - 1815 - 218 pages
...though but for one half-year, they will never be satisfied to have it otherwise. And, having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity...and then it will become inveterate and incurable. PUBLIC LIFE. IT is therefore our business carefully to cultivate in our minds, to rear to the most...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 7

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1815 - 458 pages
...though but for one half-year, they will never be satisfied to have it otherwise. And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bitti the hand that fed them. To avoid that evil, guvenmient will redouble the causes of r> d 2 it;...
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The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir, Volume 2

Edmund Burke - English literature - 1835 - 620 pages
...though but for one half-year, they will never be satisfied to have it otherwise. And having looked er, and then lo tell me, in downright earnest, whether he sees hitherto hite the nand that fed them. To avoid that evil, government will redouble the causes of it ; and then...
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The Works of Edmund Burke, Volume 4

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1839 - 590 pages
...though but for one half year, they will never be satisfied to have it otherwise. And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity,...and then it will become inveterate and incurable. V I beseech the government (which I take in the largest sense of the word, comprehending the two houses...
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Free Trade and the League: A Biographic History of the Pioneers of Freedom ...

Alexander Somerville - Free trade - 1853 - 676 pages
...though but for one half-year, they will never be satisfied to have it otherwise. And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity...and then it will become inveterate and incurable." A memorable and unfortunate instance of supplying food, J *Uso of wages, to buy it to the people of...
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Familiar Quotations: Being an Attempt to Trace to Their Source Passages and ...

John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 pages
...about in every form of speech and writing, in order to excite popular indignation. And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.1 Thoughts and Details on Scarcity. Vol. vp 156. All men that are ruined are ruined on the side...
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Familiar Quotations ...

John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...cold neutrality of an impartial judge. Preface to Bristol's Address. Vol. v./. 67. And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.1 Thottghts and Details on Scarcity. Vol. \. p. 156. All men that are ruined are ruined on the...
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