All government — indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act — is founded on compromise and barter.


Second Speech on Conciliation with America (1775)

Edmund Burke Quotes

All government — indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act — is founded on compromise and barter.

All government — indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act — is founded on compromise and barter.

All government — indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act — is founded on compromise and barter.

All government — indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act — is founded on compromise and barter.