When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They ...

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.

quote by Edmund Burke
Submitted by Lucian Velea
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