...liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites. . . . Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon...cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters. 26 Writing to a royalist member of the French national assembly in 1791, Burke expressed his belief...

...good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon the will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less...intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.1 Edmund Burke VIRTUE AND THE MODERN REPUBLIC A HE IDEA OF VIRTUE was central to the political...

...civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.... Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon...intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.160 Edmund Burke resigned himself, stating: First, according to the ancient, good, and laudable...

..."It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things," wrote Edmund Burke some two centuries ago, "that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." He went on to suggest that "men [humankind 1 are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to...

...temperance and self-mastery, and thus upon some form of intrapersonal liberty. As Edmund Burke said, "It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things...intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters."1 That is, the neighbours of such persons have no security in the enjoyment of their own liberty,...

...and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the external constitution of things that men of intemperate minds...cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." 1 Despite Burke's intimations to the contrary, personal responsibility is not merely an alternative...

...civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.... Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon...intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.107 On this note, we will proceed to the third and final part of this book. In Part III, we...

...civil society in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.... Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon...cannot be free, Their passions forge their fetters." Government is this "controlling power" (Disquisition, para. 8). 65 Cf. eg, Orlando Patterson, Freedom...

...hierarchical society was 'natural' and, in his 'Letter to a Member of the National Assembly' of 1791, that Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon...cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters. (Glen, p. 213) Paine answered Burke with his equally famous argument for the natural rights of freedom...

...appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without . . . men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." Criminality is purposeful human behavior. The testimony of criminals provides perhaps our strongest...