• Politics ought to be adjusted not to human reasonings but to human nature, of which reason is but a part and by no means the greatest part.

    Edmund Burke: Politics ought to be adjusted not to human reasonings but to human nature, of which reason is but a part and by no means the greatest part.
    Edmund Burke (1804). “Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from the works of ... Edmund Burke”, p.52