In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.

— Edmund Burke Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol (1777)

More quotes by Edmund Burke

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