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. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things that men of
intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
- Edmund Burke
- Edmund Burke
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