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 Quote on the way which legislatures are supposed to function

Edmund Burke

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848 No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
743 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.
745 There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
810 Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.
733 The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

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