People must be governed in a manner agreeable to their temper and disposition; and men of free character and spirit must be ruled with, at least, some condescension to this spirit and this character.

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

More quotes by Edmund Burke

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Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770)

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