All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. – Edmund Burke
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men. – Edmund Burke
It is hard to say whether doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery. – 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
Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises. Our political system promotes nepotism and wasting money. This has undermined our legal system and confidence in the functioning of the state. One of the consequences is that many citizens dont pay their taxes. – Georgios A. Papandreou