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Edmund Burke

“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 that deliberation I shall always advise to call in the aid of the farmer and the physician rather than the professor of metaphysics.”

Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
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Reflections on the Revolution in France Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke
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