Quote by Edmund Burke
In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see

In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows. – Edmund Burke

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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…
Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. – Edmund Burke

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Do not judge and you will never be mistaken. – Jean Jacques Rousseau

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