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“To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.”

Edmund Burke · Men

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Edmund Burke

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

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

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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

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