On the record
Numbers in a state (supposing, which is not the case in France, that a state does exist) are always of consideration,--but they are not the whole consideration.
Said by
Edmund Burke
Source
gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “Numbers in a state (supposing, which is not the case in France, that a state does exist) are always of…”
Editor's note · Context
Burke asserts that while numbers matter in a state, they should not be the sole consideration in governance.
Share
More from Edmund Burke
Jan 1, 1790
It is an evil inevitably attendant on the dominion of sovereign democratic republics.
Jan 1, 1790
They have not more notes in their song than the cuckoo; though, far from the softness of that harbinger of summer and plenty, their voice is as harsh and as ominous as that of the raven.
Jan 1, 1790
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.
Jan 1, 1790
They will become flatterers instead of legislators,--the instruments, not the guides of the people.
Other voices in this conversation
