All Government,--indeed, Every Human Benefit And Enjoyment, Every Virtue And Every Prudent Act,--is Founded On Compromise And Barter.

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All government,--indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every
virtue and every prudent act,--is founded on compromise and barter.
-- Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
-- Speech on the Conciliation of America, Vol. ii, p. 169

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