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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I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people. – Edmund Burke

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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. – Jonathan Swift

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The essential job of government is to facilitate, not frustrate, job development. – Andrew Cuomo

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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything. – Anthony Trollope

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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. – John Adams

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