The effect of liberty to individuals is, that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratula… - Edmund Burke

A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.

and social manners. All these (in their way) are good things, too; and without them, liberty is not a benefit whilst it lasts, and is not likely to continue long. The effect of liberty to individuals is, that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations, which may be soon turned into complaints. Prudence would dictate this in the case of separate, insulated, private men. But liberty, when men act

The human mind is often, and I think it is for the most part, in a state neither of pain nor pleasure, which I call a state of indifference.