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."
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"Our patience will achieve more than our force."
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
"It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare."
"You can never plan the future by the past."
"Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it."