 | Lucius Sergius CATILINA - 1795 - Страниц: 342
...country. The people found themselves at liberty to act without controul ; as a great writer observes, " What is " liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? it " is the greatest of all possible evils ; it is folly, " vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint." This, and the abolition of all religious... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - Страниц: 244
...that the peer, whose footman's instep he measures, is able to keep his chaplain from a jail. * * * * 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - Страниц: 228
...alone, that the peer, whose footman's instep he measures, is able to keep his chaplafn from a jail. 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 bea to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on account... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1807 - Страниц: 512
...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. These who know what virtuous liberty is, cannut bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on account... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1814 - Страниц: 258
...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 beads, on account... | |
 | Edmond Burke - 1815 - Страниц: 240
...alone, that the peer, whose footman's instep he measures, is able to keep his chaplain from a jail. 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... | |
 | 1821 - Страниц: 362
...people 1 see (,'reat liberty indeed ; in many, if not in the most, an oppressive degrading servitnde. 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1839 - Страниц: 554
...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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1839 - Страниц: 546
...the most, an oppressive degrading servitude. But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue 1 It is the greatest of all possible evils ; for it...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... | |
 | Henry Godwin - 1842 - Страниц: 1018
...our British Polybius, Burke ! " But what is liberty," asks that profound statesman, " without wisdom, without virtue ? It is the greatest of all possible...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... | |
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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. 
