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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
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NUMBER:
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507 |
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AUTHOR:
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Edmund Burke (1729–97) |
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QUOTATION:
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What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first possess the means of knowing the fitness of your man; and then you must retain some hold upon him by personal obligation or dependence. |
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ATTRIBUTION:
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EDMUND BURKE, “Reflections on the Revolution in France,” 1790, The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, vol. 3, p. 483 (1899). |
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SUBJECTS:
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Elections |
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