“ Men have no right to what is not reasonable and to what is not for their benefit ”
Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790). copy citation
| Author | Edmund Burke |
|---|---|
| Source | Reflections on the Revolution in France |
| Topic | benefit right |
| Date | 1790 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Reflections_on_the_Revolution_in_France |
Context
“The body of the community, whenever it can
come to act, can meet with no effectual resistance; but till power and
right are the same, the whole body of them has no right inconsistent with
virtue, and the first of all virtues, prudence. Men have no right to what
is not reasonable and to what is not for their benefit; for though a
pleasant writer said, liceat perire poetis, when one of them, in cold
blood, is said to have leaped into the flames of a volcanic revolution,
ardentem frigidus Aetnam insiluit, I consider such a frolic rather as an”
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