March 5, 2016

A word from Edmund Burke

(Scott Johnson) In the spirit of Steve Hayward's occasional blasts from the past, I offer these words that have been going around in my head over the past week: Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites, — in proportion as their love of justice is above their rapacity, — in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is

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