The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

A law is not a law without coercion behind it.

Honesty is the best policy, says the familiar axiom; but people who are honest on that principle defraud no one but themselves.

The possession of great powers no doubt carries with it a comtempt for mere external show

History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires.

Light itself is a great corrective. A thousand wrongs and abuses that are grown in darkness disappear, like owls and bats, before the light of day.

Coercion is the basis of every law in the universe,--human or divine. A law is not law without coercion behind it.