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.


Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

Edmund Burke Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...