The necessity for external government to man is in an inverse ratio to the vigor of his self-government. Where the last is most complete, the first is least wanted. Hence, the more virtue the more liberty.


Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge: In Two Volumes (ed. 1835)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

The necessity for external government to man is in an inverse ratio to the vigor of his self-government. Where the last is most complete, the first...

The necessity for external government to man is in an inverse ratio to the vigor of his self-government. Where the last is most complete, the first...

The necessity for external government to man is in an inverse ratio to the vigor of his self-government. Where the last is most complete, the first...

The necessity for external government to man is in an inverse ratio to the vigor of his self-government. Where the last is most complete, the first...