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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.


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CONFUCIUS Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue
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ASHLEY MONTAGU Every act, every deed of justice and mercy and benevolence, makes heavenly music in Heaven.
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H. L. MENCKEN Every now and then the government must defend itself against itself.
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EDMUND BURKE The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
EDMUND BURKE It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
EDMUND BURKE But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and ...
EDMUND BURKE The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please; we ought to see what it w...
EDMUND BURKE He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoder...
EDMUND BURKE Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
EDMUND BURKE