What follows is a quote from 18th English philosopher Edmund Burke.His insights into human nature are relevant to the condition of men and the time we are now living in.
"Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put chains on their own appetites; in proportion as their love of justice is above their rapacity(greed);in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption; in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good,in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon the will and appetite is placed somewhere;and the less of it there is within,the more there must be of it without. It is ordained in the eternal consitution of things, that men of intemperate habits cannot be free.Their passions forge their fetters(chains)."
Among other things, we have become a soft, complacent, and undisciplined nation.
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