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
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity. – Edmund Burke
I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people. – Edmund Burke
Government is force, pure and simple. Theres no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society – people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily. – Harry Browne