Quote#Freedom
Liberty, if I understand it at all, is a general principle, and the…
Quote byEdmund Burke · 1729–1797
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol (1777).
English (original)
Liberty, if I understand it at all, is a general principle, and the clear right of all the subjects within the realm, or of none. Partial freedom seems to me a most invidious mode of slavery.
— Edmund Burke
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