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Quotation #40838 from Classic Quotes:

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, We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess, 2011
Irish orator, philosopher, & politician (1729 - 1797)  

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