Lost Causes and Opportunites Lost

Pro-lifers and opponents of oppression?

"If you succeed, you save those who cannot so much as give you thanks." Edmund Burke

Every Trifling Thing

Should the government interfere with commerce, as is depicted in this quote about the expansive government of pre-revolution France?

In other countries trade supports the state; in this the state must support trade: every trifling thing here requires the hand of government.

Lt. Colonel Alexander Jardine, quoted in John Lough's France on the Eve of Revolution

Natural Right

"Indeed, this formal recognition, by the sovereign power, of an original right in the subject, can never be subverted, but by rooting up the holding radical principles of government, and even of society itself."
Edmund Burke
Speech on Fox's East India Bill