Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
595
AUTHOR:
Edmund Burke (172997)
QUOTATION:
Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.
ATTRIBUTION:
EDMUND BURKE, speech on the petition of the Unitarians, House of Commons, May 11, 1792.The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, vol. 7, p. 50 (1899).