Edmund Burke's Quote - The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, a

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

Other quotes by Edmund Burke

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. – Edmund Burke

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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. – Edmund Burke

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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little. – Edmund Burke

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

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The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations. – 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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Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it. – Bill Cosby

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The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope. When the Verities become acrobats we can judge them. – Oscar Wilde

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To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame to copy faults is want of sense. – Charles Churchill

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What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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