Apr 11, 2020

Edmund Burke on the preconditions of liberty

Men are qualified for civil liberties, in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their appetites: in proportion as their love of justice is above their rapacity.

~ Edmund Burke

(From Chapter 2 of Friedrich Hayek's The Fatal Conceit.)

The Portable Edmund Burke by Edmund Burke: 9780140267600 ...

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