 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...  A Visit to Greece in 1823 and 1824 - Side 166av George Waddington - 1825 - 248 siderUten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 228 sider
...and every government is called tyranny and usurpation which is not formed on their fancies. * * * * 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 to justice is above their rapacity ; in proportion as their... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 sider
...freedom ; and every government is called tyranny and usurpation which is not formed en their fancies. 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 to justice is above their rapacity ; in proportion as their... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1807 - 512 sider
...liberty ? I doubt much, very much indeed, whether France is at all ripe for liberty on any standard. 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 to justice is above their rapacity ; in proportion as their... | |
 | Edmond Burke - 1815 - 240 sider
...freedom ; and every government is called tyranny and usurpation which is not formed on their fancies. 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 to justice is above their rapacity ; in proportion as their... | |
 | James Hardie - 1818 - 392 sider
...an opposite course, we shall endanger our quiet, our health, our reputation, and our liberty. * '' Men are qualified for civil liberty, in exact proportion...proportion as their love of justice is above their capacity. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1828 - 182 sider
...freedom ; and every government is called tyranny and usurpation, which is not formed on their fancies. 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 to justice is abo«e their rapacity ; in proportion as... | |
 | Beverley Tucker - 1839 - 32 sider
...of republican government. "Men," says the wisest of all observers on the political history of man, "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... | |
 | 1858 - 690 sider
...necessary conditions for the enjoyment of liberty were well defined. "Men are qualified for civil libertT, in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral...upon their appetites; in proportion as their love to justice is above their rapacity ; in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of under•tanding... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 1845 - 854 sider
...seldom falls to the share of those to whom the instruction of youth is commonly entrusted. — Stewart. 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 to justice U above their rapacity ; in proportion as their... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1852 - 402 sider
...despotic institutions. I may sum up this head of my remarks in the fine language of Mr. Burke — " 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 to justice is above their rapacity ; in proportion as their... | |
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