| Colin Bingham - Reference - 1982 - 376 pages
...of government to apply a great remedy to a great evil at all risks to themselves. LORD JOHN RUSSELL All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment,...prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. We balance inconveniences; we give and take; we remit some rights that we may enjoy others. EDMUND BURKE... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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...prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. We balance inconveniences; we give and take; we remit some rights that we may enjoy others"12. Angesichts... | |
| Richard A. Posner - Law - 1990 - 524 pages
...— policy. Burke's own formulation of prudentialism is strongly antiformalist, indeed pragmatist: "All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment,...prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. We balance inconveniences; we give and take; we remit some rights, that we may enjoy others; and we choose... | |
| 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... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 1993 - 412 pages
...argument and logical illation. We Englishmen stop very short of the principles upon which we support any given part of our constitution; or even the whole...prudent 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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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