Character is much easier kept than recovered. — Thomas Paine. American philosopher and author (1737–1809) Virtue
A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice.
From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself.
But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.