Quote #77
All government - indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act - is founded on compromise and barter.
More from Edmund Burke
- Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy for superstition.
- Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil.
- The march of the human mind is slow.
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- It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do.
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- Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.