Edmund Burke's Quote - Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their d

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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I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people. – Edmund Burke

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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver. – Edmund Burke

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

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

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The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue. There is a perpetual interference with personal liberty over there that would not be tolerated in England for a week. – Margot Asquith

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The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations. – Edmund Burke

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