It Is The Elected Official's Duty To Sacrifice His Repose, His Pleasure, His Satisfaction To Theirs -- And Above All, Ever And In All Cases, To Prefer Their Interest To His Own.

It Is The Elected Official's Duty To Sacrifice His Repose, His Pleasure, His Satisfaction To Theirs -- And Above All, Ever And In All Cases, To Prefer Their Interest To His Own.

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It is the elected official's duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasure,
his satisfaction to theirs -- and above all, ever and in all cases, to
prefer their interest to his own. But his unbiased opinion, his mature
judgement, his enlightened conscience, he ought not sacrifice to you, to
any man, or any set of men living. These he does not derive from your
pleasure -- nor from the law and the constitution. They are a trust from
Providence, for the abuse of which he is deeply answerable. 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.
-- Edmund Burke,
-- in his essay, The Role of the Public Official as Representative, 1774

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