"It is better to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving much to free will, even with some loss to the object, than to attempt to make men mere machines and instruments of a political benevolence. The world on the whole will gain by a liberty, without which virtue cannot exist."
Edmund Burke - (1729-1797)
Anglo-Irish statesman, orator and writer, the 'Father of Modern Conservatism'
Source: Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1790
