Quotes from James R. Mills

They were doing what they thought they had to do. Their intentions were as good as those of most political and religious purists. In the time of Julius Caesar, Brutus was known as the most moral man in Rome. Whenever we think of what he did and of what then became of him, we are reminded that unduly virtuous men can be as great a danger to themselves and their own causes as they are to their adversaries.

If a public figure is willing to accept things as they are, he will avoid being loved or hated very much, and he will die in his bed of old age--if he hasn't had the decency to put an earlier end to his life by committing suicide.