Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite…

Edmund Burke
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Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. ✨ Edmund Burke (1791). A Letter from Mr. Burke, to a Member of the National Assembly: In Answer to Some Objections to His Book on French Affairs, p.69
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