Belloc, 1936

"It is worth noting, by the way, that the most sentimental people, who are loudest against the right to wage a just war, or execute a criminal, are just the people who are most likely to be in favor of 'putting incurables out of their pain', which the commandment against murder emphatically forbids."

Hilaire Belloc, 1936
"Characters of the Reformation"

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