To govern according to the sense and agreeably to the interests of the people is a great and glorious object of government.
Edmund Burke: “To govern according to the sense and agreeably to the interests of the people is a great and glorious object of…”
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Burke describes the noble goal of governing in accordance with the people's interests.
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