[It is a basic principle of a tyrant] to unarm his people of weapons, money and all means whereby they resist his power.

Men endure the losses that befall them by mere casualty with more patience than the damages they sustain by injustice.

The necessity of war, which among human actions is the most lawless, hath some kind of affinity with the necessity of law.

Hatreds are the cinders of affection.

But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.

The world is itself but a larger prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.

Prevention is the daughter of intelligence.