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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 595
AUTHOR: Edmund Burke (1729–97)
QUOTATION: Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.
ATTRIBUTION: EDMUND BURKE, speech on the petition of the Unitarians, House of Commons, May 11, 1792.—The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, vol. 7, p. 50 (1899).
SUBJECTS: Fear