Quote #8
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.
More from Edmund Burke
- I take toleration to be a part of religion. I do not know which I would sacrifice; I would keep them both: it is not necessary that I shoul…
- Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advoc…
- Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
- People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much to ho…
- The wisdom of our ancestors.
- Applaud us when we run, console us when we fall, cheer us when we recover.
- It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the publick to be the most anxious for its welfare.
- Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.