"Men are qualified for civil liberty, in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites; in proportion as their love of justice is above their rapacity; in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption; in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves."
A Letter from Mr. Burke to a Member of the National Assembly; In Answer to Some Objections to his Book on French Affairs 
Text copied online and cursorily corrected against Edmund Burke, <u>A Letter from Mr. Burke to a Member of the National Assembly; In Answer to Some Objections to his Book on French Affairs</u>, 3rd edition (Paris, Printed, and London, Re-printed for J. Dodsley, 1791). &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=L1wPAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;