Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
The tribunal of conscience exists independent of edicts and decrees.
And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.
He that borrows the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; he that uses that of a superior elevates his own to the stature of that he contemplates.
Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
There is a time when the hoary head of inveterate abuse will neither draw reverence nor obtain protection.