Should any American soldier be so base and infamous as to injure any [prisoner] ... I do most earnestly enjoin you to bring him to such severe and exemplary punishment as the enormity of the crime may require. Should it extend to death itself, it will not be disproportional to its guilt at such a time and in such a cause... for by such conduct they bring shame, disgrace and ruin to themselves and their country.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.

For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the aggressor usually regards the silence as a sign of contempt.

Those things for which we find words, are things we have already overcome. In all speech there lies an element of contempt.