Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.