{"id":8771,"date":"2020-06-15T14:57:33","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T19:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=8771"},"modified":"2020-06-15T14:57:52","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T19:57:52","slug":"quotable-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=8771","title":{"rendered":"QUOTABLE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cMen are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains on their own appetites\u2014in proportion as their love to justice is above their rapacity;\u2014in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption;\u2014in 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 will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there is without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"QuoteReference\">(<a class=\"QuoteAuthor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ourrepubliconline.com\/Author\/132\" data-slimstat=\"5\">Edmund Burke<\/a>, <i>A Letter From Mr. Burke To A Member Of The National Assembly<\/i>, 1791.)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Repost from June 3, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMen are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains on their own appetites\u2014in proportion as their love to justice is above their rapacity;\u2014in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption;\u2014in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-character","category-quotable"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8772,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8771\/revisions\/8772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}