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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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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. – Edmund Burke

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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…
Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. – Edmund Burke

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There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself. – Andre Breton

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Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed. – Edmund Burke

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Ones liberty should end when it becomes the curse of his neighbor. – Frederick Farrar

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