Edmund Burke | The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse
“The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.” Edmund Burke “Je größer die Macht, umso gefährlicher der Mißbrauch.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…
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Edmund Burke | Their passions forge their fetters
in Edmund Burke“Until you could make out practically that great work, a combination of opposing forces, “a work of labour long, and endless praise,” the utmost caution ought to have been used in the reduction of the royal power, which alone was capable of holding together the comparatively heterogeneous mass of your states. But at this day, all these considerations are unreasonable. To what end should we discuss the limitations of royal power? Your king is in prison. Why speculate on the measure and standard of liberty? I doubt much, very much…
Edmund Burke | But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue?
in Edmund Burke“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. Those who know what virtuous liberty is, cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on account of their having high-sounding words in their mouths.” Edmund Burke “Aber was ist Freiheit ohne Weisheit und ohne Tugend? Sie ist das größte aller möglichen Übel; denn sie ist Torheit, Laster und Wahnsinn, ohne Unterweisung oder Zurückhaltung. Diejenigen, die wissen, was tugendhafte Freiheit ist,…