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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
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NUMBER:
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774 |
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AUTHOR:
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Edmund Burke (1729–97) |
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QUOTATION:
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If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so,—and that they, and not I, are the natural, lawful, and competent judges of this matter. |
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ATTRIBUTION:
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EDMUND BURKE, letter to the sheriffs of Bristol, April 3, 1777.—The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, vol. 2, p. 227 (1899). |
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SUBJECTS:
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Government—definition of |
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