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Written by Wordsmith   
Saturday, 05 July 2008 06:00
The true danger is when Liberty is nibbled away, for expedients.
Edmund Burke (1899)
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written by Nigel Sedgwick, July 05, 2008
I find that these words were written by the Irish (British) politician and philosopher, to the Sheriffs of Bristol in 1777. He died in 1797.

Though these words are clearly just the sort of thing he would have said or written, your dating of the quotation as 1899 had me searching franticly, though only briefly, for another, later, Edmund Burke of equivalent brilliance and view.

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