Interesting statement on how civil liberty and civil law interact, suggesting that when people have no higher reason and good by which to govern themselves, naked law and legislation (i.e., the state) is the only thing left for them to submit to:
Men are fitted for civil liberty in exact proportion of their ability to place chains upon their own appetites. The more order there is within the less will have to be imposed from without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things that men of intemperate minds can not be free; their passions form their fetters.
~Michael Uhlman loosely (?) quoting Edmund Burke, interview (1) with Ken Myers
