Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has hitherto always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did happen, the law could not afterwards be reinstated, and this fact was accepted, the predicate gradually changed. History treats almost exclusively of these bad men who subsequently became good men!

Rights are protected not by law but by the social and moral conscience of society.

Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil.

For all things are baptized at the font of eternity, and beyond good and evil; good and evil themselves, however, are but intervening shadows and damp afflictions and passing clouds.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm.