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Quote by Edmund Burke
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their d

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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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever. – Edmund Burke

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All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory they have no power over the substance of original justice. – Edmund Burke

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Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed. – Edmund Burke

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You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue. – William Blake

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By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to Aprils breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood,
And fired the shot heard round the world. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts. – Edmund Burke

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