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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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."

Edmund Burke's Quotations

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Auction	Become	Bidders	Choose
Construction	Flatterers	Guides	Instead
Instruments	Leaders	Legislators	Make
People	Popularity	Service	State
Talents	Themselves

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