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| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. |
| NUMBER: | 1052 |
| AUTHOR: | Edmund Burke (1729–97) |
| 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 Briton’s 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). |
| SUBJECTS: | Liberty |
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