Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.
There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics—none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.
The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction.
For the welfare of society, as for that of individual men, it is surely essential that there should be a statute of limitations in respect of the consequences of wrong-doing.
"Musst immer thun wie neu geboren" is the best of all maxims for the guidance of the life of States, no less than of individuals.