What is the use of discussing a man's abstract right to food or medicine? The question is upon the method of procuring and administering them. In tha… - Edmund Burke

A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate.

The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgement, and he betrays instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion