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Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.

Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.

Edmund Burke
Mother, Fear, Motherhood
Edmund Burke (1816). “The Speeches of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke in the House of Commons and in Westminster Hall: In Four Volumes”, p.62

There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear.

Edmund Burke
Courage, Fear, Reptiles
Edmund Burke (1807). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.317

The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear.

Edmund Burke
Fear, Weakness, Weak

The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.

Edmund Burke
Fear, Weakness, Concessions
Speech 'On Conciliation with America' 22 March 1775

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