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All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

The ends justify the means.

That old law about ‘an eye for an eye’ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy – but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that’s how I am guided.

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.

Morality is contraband in war.

A man’s moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.