 | Whitelaw Reid - Civil service - 1900 - 278 pages
...as always IN GREAT BRITAIN." II binding his action. " Your representative owes you," he exclaimed, " not his industry only, but his judgment ; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices that to your opinion." Later, when this attitude had excited discontent, he told them if they did not... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1901 - 608 pages
...to any set of men living. These he does not derive from your pleasure, — no, nor from the law and the Constitution. They are a trust from Providence,...you, not his industry only, but his judgment ; and he ber trays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. My worthy colleague says, his... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1902 - 678 pages
...enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to yon, to any man, or to any set of men living. Your representative owes you, not his industry only,...his judgment ; and he betrays, instead of serving yon, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. " My worthy colleague says, his will ought to be subservient... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1902 - 558 pages
...or to any set of men living. These he does not derive from your pleasure ; no, nor from the law and the constitution. They are a trust from Providence, for the abuse of which lie is deeply answerable. Tour representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment ; and... | |
 | Municipal government - 1913 - 780 pages
...his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or any set of men living. Your representative owes you, not his industry only,...serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion." As public officials, we must be public leaders, if we are to be worthy of public trust. I charge you,... | |
 | Whitelaw Reid - 1903 - 234 pages
...recognize their instructions as always binding his action. " Your representative owes you," he exclaimed, " not his industry only, but his judgment ; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices that to your opinion." Later, when this attitude had excited discontent, he told them if they did not... | |
 | David L. Sills, Robert King Merton - Social Science - 2000 - 466 pages
...not given to men. However, he attempted it. Speech on American Taxation, 19 April 1774. 1904:67. 3 Your representative owes you, not his industry only,...serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. Speech to the Electors of Bristol, 3 November 1774. 1904:95. 4 All government, indeed every human benefit... | |
 | Moorhead Kennedy, Ralph Gordon Hoxie, Brenda Repland - Political Science - 332 pages
...argued that the representative must not simply amplify the views of the current electorate saying, "your representative owes you, not his industry only,...instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion."13 This style of heroic presidential leadership suggests that presidents may more successfully... | |
 | Lawrence R. Jacobs, Robert Y. Shapiro - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 456 pages
...1987). 1 "Your representative owes you," Edmund Burke announced to the electors of Bristol in 1774, "his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion." The core dilemma of representative democracy, Burke and others have claimed, is to generate strong... | |
 | Lawrence D. Longley, Reuven Y. Hazan - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 356 pages
...sacrifice to you, to any man. ... Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgement; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion." These two competing ideals exist in many, if not most, legislative systems, yet it is not these alone... | |
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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. 
