Why should moral distinction be made between death by the spirochete and death by the streptococcus? – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962) [Spirochete because of its association with
Our morality seems to be only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on the impulse of every pig to put his feet in the trough. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free – honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth. – Abraham Lincoln
