No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation.
The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgement that the community has already reached.
We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement.
He's loved of the distracted multitude, who like not in their judgement, but their eyes.
Was all this bloodshed and deceit - from Columbus to Cortes, Pizarro the Puritans - a necessity for the human race to progress from savagery to civilization? Was Morison right in burying the story of genocide inside a more important story of human progress? Perhaps a persuasive argument can be made - as it was made by Stalin when he killed pesants for industrial progress in the Soviet Union, as it was made by Churchill explaining the bombings of Dresden and Hamburg, and Truman explaining Hiroshima. But how can the judgement be made if the benefits and losses cannot be balanced because the losses are either unmentioned or mentioned quickly?
At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty the wit; at forty the judgement.
Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgement when we have not.
Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger constant in spirit, not swerving with the blood, garnish'd and deck'd in modest compliment, not working with the eye without the ear, and but in purged judgement trusting neither? Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem.