All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Politics is compromise.
Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one's principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic.
I prefer for government to err toward less regulation, lower taxation, and free markets. And I'm a radical free trader.
We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government.
Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.
America's 'social contract' is equal opportunity... yet we have failed in achieving that seminal goal.
We have to find compromises. That's the way it is in Norway.
The primary social contract between the people of the United States and their government - quaint though it might seem to even mention it at this point - is that ours is to be a government 'of the people, by the people, for the people.'
All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.
The happiness of society is the end of government.