It is a general popular error to imagine the loudest complainers for the public, to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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Burke, Edmund. Observations on a Late State of the Nation. London: J. Dodsley, 1769.
Burke, Edmund. Observations on a Late State of the Nation. London: J. Dodsley, 1769.
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Speech on the Petition of the Unitarians, May 11, 1792
Burke, Edmund. Address on Petition of the Unitarians. House of Commons. 11 May 1792, Palace of Westminster, London, England, UK.
Burke, Edmund. "Speech on the Petition of the Unitarian Society." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin Classics, 1999.
Quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D, by James Boswell
Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in journal entry by James Boswell. 6 July 1763.
Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson, written by James Boswell, edited by David Womersley. Penguin Classics, 2008.
Voltaire. Candide, ou l'Optimisme [Candide: or, All for the Best]. Geneva: Gabriel Cramer, 1759, ch. 6.
Voltaire. Candide, edited by Nicholas Cronk. W. W. Norton & Company, 2016, ch. 6.