Men are qualified for civil liberty, in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon
their own appetites [...] Society cannot exist unless a controlling
power upon will and appetite to be placed somewhere [...] It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men
of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge
their fetters.
Burke, Edmund, The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Boston: John West; O. C. Greenleaf, 1807, vol. 3, pp. 305-306.
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