It is reconciled in policy; and politics ought to be adjusted, not to human reasonings, but to human nature; of which the reason is but a part; and by no means the greatest part.

— Edmund Burke Observations on a Late Publication on the Present State of the Nation (1769)

More quotes by Edmund Burke

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Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770)

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