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Quote by Edmund Burke
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every vi

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

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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare. – Edmund Burke

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How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it. – Henry David Thoreau

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We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels. – Henry A. Wallace

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Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant. – David Attenborough

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Aggression is simply another name for government. – Benjamin Tucker

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