All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures.

War gives the right to the conquerors to impose any condition they please upon the vanquished.

I believe that the members of my family must be as free from suspicion as from actual crime.

The die has been cast.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.

Avoid an unusual and unfamiliar word just as you would a reef.