“Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight,
But Roaring Bill (who killed him) thought it right.”

““War!”
The thought stood in Sim’s brain. It shocked and beat at him. These men were running to fight, to kill, over there in those small black cliffs where other people lived.
But why? Wasn’t life short enough without fighting and killing?”

“[A] Bill of Rights directed against federal abuses was thought necessary in addition to the separation and division of powers...”

“What people thought of as a struggle between right and wrong was just a struggle between two rights”

“We, all who live, have
A life that is lived
And another life that is thought,
And the only life we have
It's the one that is divided
In right or wrong.”

“Sharpe bellowed in anger, the war shout. They thought him weak and beaten, but he had one fight in him and they would learn what a Rifleman was in a fight.”

“By doing one wrong thing, I thought I could make everything right.”

“Lincoln thought slavery was wrong and he did not think a vote of the people could make it right.”

“There is something I must tell you. When Leonidas selected you for the Three Hundred, I went to him in private and argued strenuously against your inclusion. I thought you would not fight. […] I was wrong.”

“But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong.”