Carolina QuotesMan's rights are linked with man's duties, and when they are distorted into extravagant claims for a species of freedom and equality and worldly aggrandizement which human character cannot sustain, they degenerate from rights to vices.
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- The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot (1953)
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- 1953
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