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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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. – Henry Adams

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Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed. – 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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Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. – Benjamin Franklin

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