We never forbid where we do not also have the power to prevent.

The mob still had anger in it, some of them at least. Yet there were so many who were sick of it all, many who were already ashamed, already discovering in the…

If you act as the enemy of life, then life will become your enemy.

I blame on you only what you did. You started a fire on a hot, dry, windy day, despite all the warnings. I blame you for that, and if you hold yourself respons…

Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty or punish…

To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.

Ces deux moities de Dieu, le pape et l'empereur!