Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
It is in times of difficulty that great nations like great men display the whole energy of their character and become an object of admiration to posterity.
We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.
The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone.