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Quote by Edmund Burke
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, a

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts. – Edmund Burke

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People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous. – Edmund Burke

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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation. – Edmund Burke

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The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue. There is a perpetual interference with personal liberty over there that would not be tolerated in England for a week. – Margot Asquith

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Liberty is Gods gift, liberties the devil s. – Proverb

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Liberty has no crueler enemy than license. – Proverb

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By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to Aprils breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood,
And fired the shot heard round the world. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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