 | Joseph O'Connor - 1911 - 360 pages
...trust from Providence, for the abuse of which he is deeply answerable. Your representative owes you not his industry only, but his judgment, and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion." This is a sweeping declaration of the obligation of individual... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1911 - 318 pages
...trust from Providence, for the abuse of which he is deeply answerable. Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. My worthy colleague says, his will ought to be subservient... | |
 | Courtenay Ilbert - 1911 - 268 pages
...trust from Providence, for the abuse of which he is deeply answerable. Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. "My worthy colleague says his will ought to be subservient... | |
 | William Sharp McKechnie - Democracy - 1912 - 234 pages
...famous words addressed by Edmund Burke to his constituents at Bristol.2 "Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment, and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion." Since Burke's day, all this has been changed. The modern... | |
 | Nicholas Murray Butler - United States - 1912 - 196 pages
...ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men living Your representative owes you not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion You choose a member indeed, but when you have chosen him,... | |
 | Kent E. Calder - History - 1988 - 584 pages
...is and can become. As Edmund Burke argued to the electors of Bristol: "Your representative owes you not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion." Contemporary Japanese conservative Dietmen, in contrast... | |
 | Royce Hanson - Political Science - 298 pages
...famous address to the electors of Bristol argued that what the representative owed constituents was "not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. . . . " It may be coincidental that Burke was defeated in... | |
 | Suzy Platt - Quotations, English - 1992 - 550 pages
...trust from Providence, for the abuse of which he is deeply answerable. Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. EDMUND BURKE, speech to the electors of Bristol, November... | |
 | Stephen H. Browne - History - 1993 - 172 pages
...to any man, or to any set of men living." Burke continued unabashed, "Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion." This was neither the first nor last time Burke was to make... | |
 | Russell Kirk - Social Science - 1993 - 136 pages
...trust from Providence, for the abuse of which he is deeply answerable. Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment, and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.7 Voters ought not to fancy, he continued, that they enjoy... | |
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. 
