When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude. - Theodore Dalrymple

The victory over cruelty is never final, but, like the maintenance of freedom, requires eternal vigilance.

Incidentally, many thousands of American servicemen addicted themselves to heroin in Vietnam, but two years after their repatriation their rate of addiction was no greater than that of draftees who were to go to Vietnam, but never did go because the war had ended.

Never has so much indifference masqueraded as so much compassion; never has there been such willful blindness. The once pragmatic English have become a nation of sleepwalkers.