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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 1053
AUTHOR: Edmund Burke (1729–97)
QUOTATION: The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts.
ATTRIBUTION: EDMUND BURKE, letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol, April 3, 1777.—The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, vol. 2, p. 199 (1899).
SUBJECTS: Liberty
 


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