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But when the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators, the instruments, not the guides of the people.
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) -
God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.
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Government is a broker in pillage, and every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
A Carnival of Buncombe -
My assistant says I'm an eBay auction waiting to happen. I have a very large collection of T-shirts... about 4,000 now. Maybe I'll pillage it someday. I have resisted the offers to do a line of T-shirts.
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War may be an auction for countries. For soldiers it's a lottery.
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When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.
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