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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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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
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