All government - indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act - is founded on compromise and barter.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Government and all human benefits rely on compromise and exchange.
- In plain terms
- Everything human depends on compromise and trade.
- What can you take from it?
- Expect compromise in all human systems.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What compromise did you recently make?
Another view
Some core values resist compromise.
More from Edmund Burke
Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy for superstition.
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