"Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist" — Robert Browning

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private citizens will occasionally kill theirs.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught

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