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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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Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old. – Edmund Burke

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Taxation
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Edmund Burke
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People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous. – Edmund Burke

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Hope
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Edmund Burke
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