Rankness Quotes

Consider the ravages committed in the bowels of all commonwealths by ambition, by avarice, envy, fraud, open injustice, and pretended friendship; vices which could draw little support from a state of nature, but which blossom and flourish in the rankness of political society. (Edmund Burke)
New First Law of Politics. State power expands to fill any area surrendered by a formerly free people. Liberty is like a garden . Weed it and tend it, or it will swiftly be choked by thorns and rankness. View quote
Peter Hitchens