This I regard as history's highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
The most seditious is the most cowardly.
The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.