They broke into the Cape House one winter. Every thing that could be knocked on the floor was on the floor. They opened a can of yellow paint and tracked that over all the furniture and bedspreads. And as a final insult ate the ex-lax in the medicine cabinet and hosed the place....
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Thomas Paine