Saturday, March 17, 2012

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the publick to be the most anxious for its welfare.

Edmund Burke: Observations on a Late Publication on the Present State of the Nation (1769)

1 comment:

Stephen Downes said...

It is in general not an error to suppose that the loudest complainers for the publick are the least anxious for its welfare. -- Downes