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22Jan2006

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DateSunday, January 22, 2006 at 10:06PM

“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 (1729-97), Irish philosopher, statesman.
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