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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