Send a Quote Enter a brief message. SendOk2 “The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man's pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.” ~ Edmund Burke (1729-1797) Irish-born British statesman, parliamentary orator, and political thinkerSource: quoted by Lord Acton in Lectures on the French Revolution (London: 1910), in J. Rufus Fears (Ed.), Selected Writings of Lord Acton, Vol. 1: Essays in the History of Liberty (Indianapolis: LibertyClassics, 1985), p. 206.