To give freedom is still more easy. It is not necessary to guide; it only requires to let go the rein. But to form a free government; that is, to temper together these opposite elements of liberty and restraint in one work, requires much thought, deep reflection, a sagacious, powerful, and combining mind.
Edmund BurkeVice incapacitates a man from all public duty; it withers the powers of his under- standing, and makes his mind paralytic.
Edmund Burke