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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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Democracy is an experiment, and the right of the majority to rule is no more inherent than the right of the minority to rule; and unless the majority represents sane, righteous, unselfish public sentiment, it has no inherent right. – William Allen White (Thanks, Bob)

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Government

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there arent enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. – Ayn Rand

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Governments first duty and highest obligation is public safety. – Arnold Schwarzenegger

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No way, no how did I break into NORAD. Thats a complete myth. And I never attempted to access anything considered to be classified government systems. – Kevin Mitnick

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From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus they figure into good American poetry, whether the poet is aware of what he is doing or not. – Diane Wakoski

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A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it. – Charles Lamb, 1830

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Im always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning… Every day I find something creative to do with my life. – Miles Davis

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Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous? – Bill Watterson

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