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Quote by Edmund Burke
When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction o

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

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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. – Edmund Burke

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Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world. – Edmund Burke

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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling it never forgives preaching of a new gospel. – Edmund Burke

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The election is not very far off when a candidate can recognize you across the street. – Kin Hubbard

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