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" All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. "
Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks - Page 155
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Selected Issues and the Positions of Nelson A. Rockefeller, Nominee for Vice ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - 1974 - 136 pages
...distinguish between concession and capitulation, of course, but as Burke observed, "All governments, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue...and every prudent act, is founded on compromise." ******* The modern executive must present to the modern legislature the programs he believes to be...
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Voluntary Standards and Certification Act, 1976: Hearings Before the ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly - Commercial products - 1976 - 598 pages
...that voluntary system to develop national standards for materials, products, systems, and services. "All government — indeed, every human benefit and...prudent act — is founded on compromise and barter." — Edmund Burke WHAT IS A STANDARD? A standard is a rule that tells us how to do a specific thing....
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Great Smoky Mountains Wilderness Act: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Public Lands and Reserved Water - Great Smoky Mountains National Park (Agency) - 1984 - 648 pages
...controversy, and it occurs to me that Edmond Burke said on March 22, 1775, on conciliation with America: "All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment,...prudent act is founded on compromise and barter." We hope this compromise will be reached in the Congress of the United States and particularly for the...
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The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations

Robert Andrews - Reference - 1989 - 414 pages
...leave it and those who split the difference. Father Ronald Knox (1888-1957) British clergyman, writer All government — indeed every human benefit and...prudent act — is founded on compromise and barter. Edmund Burke (1729-1797) Irish philosopher, statesman If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better...
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Federal Role in Child Care: Hearing Before the Committee on ..., Volume 4

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance - Child care - 1989 - 240 pages
...our chances, there will need to be a concerted effort toward compromise. As Edmund Burke once said, .All government indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment,...prudent act— is founded on compromise and barter.. Today. l offer the following lecJalation as a point from which to begin the bartering. My bill, the...
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Der Auftrag der Nationalökonomie: ausgewählte Schriften

Walter Adolf Jöhr - Business & Economics - 1990 - 576 pages
...irgendeinem spekulativen Prinzip, wie etwa dem der Freiheit, bis in seine letzten Konsequenzen folge. „All government, indeed every human benefit and...give and take; we remit some rights that we may enjoy others"12. Angesichts 7 BRUNNER, EMIL, Das Gebot und die Ordnungen. Entwurf einer protestantisch-theologischen...
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Scruples, Volume 1

Judith Krantz - Fiction - 1989 - 593 pages
...good-bye, "I'm afraid I wasn't much help, but what I told you was the best advice I know. Remember, 'Al1 government — indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment,...prudent act — is founded on compromise and barter.' " "Now where on earth did you find that little homily — stitched on a pillow?" "Edmund Burke, if...
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Pre-Revolutionary Writings

Edmund Burke - History - 1993 - 412 pages
...support any given part of our constitution; or even the whole of it together. I could easily, if I had not already tired you, give you very striking...act, is founded on compromise and barter. We balance inconveniencies; we give and take; we remit some rights, that we may enjoy others; and we chuse rather...
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The Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Reaffirmation Act of 1987 ...

Budget - 1993 - 674 pages
...undercurrent of compromise that exists to resolve difference in opinions. As Edmund Burke once said, "all government — indeed, every human benefit and...prudent act — is founded on compromise and barter." Compromise has been a scarce commodity around here during budget debates in Washington since 1981,...
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The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations

Robert Andrews - Reference - 1993 - 1214 pages
...was justly his due. AMBROSE BIERCE (1842-1914), US author. The Devil's Oictioлагу(1В81-190Ы. 2 All government — indeed every human benefit and...prudent act — is founded on compromise and barter. EDMUND BURKE 11729-1797). Irish philosopher, statesman. Speech on Conciliation with America, 22 March...
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