Glenn Beck (1964) U.S. talk radio and television host
Glenn Beck
Television
Fox News
2010-07-20
2010s, 2010
“But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.”
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
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