All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. (Edmund Burke)

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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