All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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These gentle historians, on the contrary, dip their pens in nothing but the milk of human kindness.
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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