Mention513927
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| so:text | If we owe to it any duty, it is not subject to our will. Duties are not voluntary. Duty and will are even contradictory terms. Now though civil society might be at first a voluntary act its continuance is under a permanent standing covenant, coexisting with the society; and it attaches upon every individual of that society, without any formal act of his own. This is warranted by the general practice, arising out of the general sense of mankind. (en) |
| so:isPartOf | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edmund_Burke |
| so:description | An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs (1791) (en) |
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