Edmund Burke: “The representation, though derived from parts, would be a duty which equally regarded the whole.”

It was not made to entice the smell of a mole, nuzzling and burying himself in his mother earth, as yours is.

But 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.

The body of the people must not find the principles of natural subordination by art rooted out of their minds.

To keep a balance between the power of acquisition on the part of the subject and the demands he is to answer on the part of the state is the fundamental part of the skill of a true politician.