Edmund Burke: 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.

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.

-- Edmund Burke


		Name: Edmund Burke Type: Statesman Nationality: Irish Birth: January 12, 1729 Death: July 9, 1797

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