Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
1052
AUTHOR:
Edmund Burke (172997)
QUOTATION:
That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth.
ATTRIBUTION:
EDMUND BURKE, A Free Britons Advice to the Free Citizens of Dublin, no. 2, 1748.The Early Life, Correspondence and Writings of the Rt. Hon. Edmund Burke, p. 338 (1923).