There is no qualification for government, but virtue and wisdom, whether actual or presumptive. . . . Every thing ought to be open; but not indiffere… - Edmund Burke

Everything ought to be open, — but not indifferently to every man.

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every 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 rather to be happy citizens than subtle disputants.

Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar.

what shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue.