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21 " The government of human beings, he argued, is a matter not of applying cold rules and principles, but of tending to warm sentiments and attachments to produce the strongest and best unified community possible. "
― Yuval Levin , The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left
22 " The influence of reason in producing our passions is nothing near so extensive as it is commonly believed,” Burke writes. "
23 " We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on his own private stock of reason, because we suspect that the stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations and of ages,” Burke writes in the Reflections. "
24 " 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, "