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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 816
AUTHOR: Edmund Burke (1729–97)
QUOTATION: Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.
ATTRIBUTION: EDMUND BURKE, speech on American taxation, House of Commons, April 19, 1774.—The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, vol. 2, p. 65 (1899).
SUBJECTS: Greatness