Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke

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Author: Edmund Burke

Moral Distinctions.

Those who are least anxious about your conduct are not those that love you most. Moderate affection and satiated enjoyment are cold and respectful; but an ardent and injured passion is tempered up with wrath, and grief, and shame, and conscious worth, and the maddening sense of violated right. A jealous love lights his torch from the firebrands of the furies. They who call upon you to belong WHOLLY to the people, are those who wish you to return to your PROPER home; to the sphere of your duty, to the post of your honour, to the mansion-house of all genuine, serene, and solid satisfaction.

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Chicago: Edmund Burke, "Moral Distinctions.," Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke in Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke Original Sources, accessed October 2, 2023, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=L12WNGWI9YV3AP6.

MLA: Burke, Edmund. "Moral Distinctions." Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke, in Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke, Original Sources. 2 Oct. 2023. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=L12WNGWI9YV3AP6.

Harvard: Burke, E, 'Moral Distinctions.' in Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke. cited in , Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke. Original Sources, retrieved 2 October 2023, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=L12WNGWI9YV3AP6.