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