All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. – Edmund Burke
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them. – Edmund Burke
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. – Edmund Burke
President Bush once said that marriage is a sacred institution and should be reserved for the union of one man and one woman. If this is the case – and most Americans would agree with him on this – then I have to ask: Why is the government at all involved in marrying people? – Tony Campolo