Smoked out
WITH regards to government efforts to curb smoking and excessive drinking, I – a non-smoker and occasional drinker – pass on the following thoughts, which originated from a local clergyman:
Of all the tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.
The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will do so without end, for they do it with the approval of their own conscience.
JOHN ROY
Edgehead
by Pathhead, Midlothian