Edmund Burke Quotes About Moral Virtues

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  • Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. 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.

    Letter to a Member of the National Assembly, 1791.
  • Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.

    Edmund Burke (1828). “The Beauties of Burke: Consisting of Selections from His Works”, p.86
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