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

Other quotes by Edmund Burke

Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world. – Edmund Burke

Category:
Restraint
Read Quote

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations. – Edmund Burke

Category:
Nature
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Liberty
category

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

Category:
Liberty

Liberty has no crueler enemy than license. – Proverb

Category:
Liberty

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

Category:
Liberty

Liberty is Gods gift, liberties the devil s. – Proverb

Category:
Liberty

Random Quotes

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. – Aristotle

Category:
Poverty

Sobriety is either the love of health, or an incapacity for debauch. – François VI de la Rochefoucault (1613–1680)

Category:
Alcohol

Life is a long lesson in humility. – James M. Barrie

Category:
Life

Visualize your long-term goals to paint your short-term action on the canvas of now. – Terri Guillemets

Category:
Goals