| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | |
|
| | | NUMBER: | 507 |
| AUTHOR: | Edmund Burke (1729–97) |
| QUOTATION: | What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first possess the means of knowing the fitness of your man; and then you must retain some hold upon him by personal obligation or dependence. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | EDMUND BURKE, “Reflections on the Revolution in France,” 1790, The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, vol. 3, p. 483 (1899). |
| SUBJECTS: | Elections |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia | | |
|
|
