"The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts."
— Liberty

January 1, 1970

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Edmund Burke, letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol (3 April 1777), in The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke (1899), Vol. 2, p. 199