"In times of war, the law falls..." - Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.”

“There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.”

“We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.”

“...one Greek city state had a fundamental law: anyone proposing revisions to the constitution did so with a noose around his neck. If his proposal lost he was instantly hanged.”

“I love being in a courtroom.”

“I am a little uneasy about the abolishment of slavery in this District of Columbia.”

“To large numbers of American citizens life in certain parts of the country becomes intolerably hazardous. They may be seized on any pretext, however flimsy, and put to death with horrible tortures. No government pretending to be civilized can go on condoning such atrocities. Either it must make every possible effort to put them down or it must suffer the scorn and contempt of Christendom.”

“We must kill them in war, just because they live beyond the river. If they lived on this side, we would be called murderers.”

“Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.”