“You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.
“Alliance: In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pocket that they cannot separately plunder a third.
“Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
“So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private citizens will occasionally kill theirs.
“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
“Our government teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy
“To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution
“World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain
“Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist
“The punishment of a criminal is an example to the rabble; but every decent man is concerned if an innocent person is condemned