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Fighting to keep something damages the very thing being fought for
Drawn from what Edmund Burke said
What Edmund Burke actually said
- Edmund Burke Irish-born British statesman and political philosopher (1729 to 1797)
A further objection to force is, that you impair the object by your very endeavors to preserve it. The thing you fought for is not the thing which you recover; but depreciated, sunk, wasted, and consumed in the contest.
Where this was said
↗Speech on Conciliation with America (22 March 1775)gutenberg.org
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