Edmund Burke Quotes:
Ocupation: Statesman
Life: January 12, 1729 - July 9, 1797
Birthday: January 12
Death: July 9
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.
source: 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
topic: Society, Liberty, Appetite, Civil Liberties, Controlling Power
