I abhor bloodshed, and every species of terror erected into a system, as
remedies equally ferocious, unjust, and inefficacious against evils that
can only be cured by the diffusion of liberal ideas.--_Mazzini._
~Weakness.~--Weakness is thy excuse, and I believe it; weakness to resist
Philistian gold: what murderer, what traitor, parricide, incestuous,
sacrilegious, but may plead it? All wickedness is weakness.--_Milton._
The strength of man sinks in the hour of trial; but there doth live a
Power that to the battle girdeth the weak.--_Joanna Baillie._