Edmund Burke Quote

What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first possess the means of knowing the fitness of your man; and then you must retain some hold upon him by personal obligation or dependence.


Reflections on the Revolution in France (ed. 1790)


What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first possess the means of knowing the fitness of your man; and then ...

What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first possess the means of knowing the fitness of your man; and then ...

What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first possess the means of knowing the fitness of your man; and then ...

What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first possess the means of knowing the fitness of your man; and then ...