 | Edmund Burke - 1909 - 538 pagina’s
...people I see great liberty indeed; in many, if not in the most, an oppressive, degrading servitude. But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue?...folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. Those who know what virtuous liberty is, cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on account... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pagina’s
...the great members of the commonwealth are to be covered with the 'all-atoning name' of Liberty. . . But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue?...vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint." It should be observed, however, that "wisdom and virtue" for Burke are not qualities achieved by philosophers... | |
 | James Boyd White - 1985 - 400 pagina’s
...Bobbs-Merrill Library of Liberal Arts Edition of the Reflections (T Mahoney ed., 1955). 5. Compare: "But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue?...folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. ... To make a government requires no great prudence. Settle the seat of power; teach obedience: and... | |
 | Malcolm Bell, Jr. - 2004 - 701 pagina’s
...father's property is intended for you, during either his lifetime, or after his demise. Edmund Burke says "What is Liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all public evils, for it is folly, vice and madness, without tuition or restraint." T. BUTLER40 Thomas... | |
 | Malcolm Bell, Jr. - 2004 - 701 pagina’s
...father's property is intended for you, during either his lifetime, or after his demise. Edmund Burke says "What is Liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all public evils, for it is folly, vice and madness, without tuition or restraint." T. BUTLER40 Thomas... | |
 | William J. Federer, William Joseph Federer - 1994 - 868 pagina’s
...our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.159 Edmund Burke wrote: What is liberty without wisdom and without virtue?...evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without restraint. Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral... | |
 | Jerry Z. Muller - 1997 - 476 pagina’s
...people I see great liberty indeed; in many, if not in the most, an oppressive degrading servitude. But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue?...folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. Those who know what virtuous liberty is, cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on account... | |
 | Richard Polenberg - 1999 - 468 pagina’s
...left it flickering dimly in time of peace. Wigmore could well have quoted another remark of Burke's: "What is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue?...folly, vice and madness, without tuition or restraint." 43 Sir Frederick Pollock and the Common Law "Wigmore in the ///. Law Rev. goes for me ex cathedra as... | |
 | 1902 - 1548 pagina’s
...and brotherhood. — From thf Address of Mrs. Charles W. Fairbanks to the Continental Congress, 1902. But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue?...folly, vice and madness, Without tuition or restraint. — Burke. Oh! if there be, on this earthly sphere, A boon, an offering that Heaven holds dear, "Tis... | |
 | Richard Alan Krieger - 2007 - 344 pagina’s
...gives a man not only enough to live by, but something to live for." — Franklin D. Roosevelt Liberty "What is liberty without wisdom and without virtue?...vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint." — "The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion." — Edmund Burke "In America... | |
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But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue ? It is the greatest of all possible evils ; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. 
