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
If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived. – Edmund Burke
When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. – Edmund Burke