If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so.

Quote by Edmund Burke

Topics: Quotes about Government

Share on:

Similar quotes

The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from...

#Crime

Custom reconciles us to everything.

#Edmund Burke

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

#Separation

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

#Society

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

#Edmund Burke

As governor of Texas, I have set high standards for our public schools, and I...

#Government

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they...

#Government

I will govern according to the common weal, but not according to the common will

#Government

If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out - either by...

#Government