“The Trite Sophism of Oppression”

"Let me add, that the great inlet by which a color for oppression has entered into the world is by one man pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another, and by claiming a right to use what means he thinks proper in order to bring him to a sense of it. It is the ordinary and trite sophism of oppression," – Edmund Burke, "Tract on the Popery Laws," published posthumously.