But I would be sure that my negotiator should be mine,--that he should be as earnest in the cause as myself, and known to be so,--that he should not be looked upon as a stipendiary advocate, but as a principled partisan.
Burke insists that a negotiator must be genuinely committed to the cause rather than merely a paid advocate.
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