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Quote from Edmund Burke,


"Your representative owes you,
not his industry only, but his judgment;
and he betrays, instead of serving you,
if he sacrifices it to your opinion."


By:

Edmund Burke (more quotes by Edmund Burke or books by/about Edmund Burke)


(1729-1797) Irish-born British statesman, parliamentary orator, and political thinker

Source:

to the voters of Bristol, 1774

Categories:

Congress, Democracy, Government, Honor, Politics, Vote, Election

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