Precisely the same motive, though in your case neither so reasonable nor so justifiable, as that on which, in the name of justice, which means only the collective selfishness of my fellow-creatures, you design in cool blood to put me publicly to death.
'Tis only that you, gentlemen, think it contributes to your safety.
That's the spirit of human laws.

I applaud and I adopt it in my own case.

Pray, Sir' (to Mr.Armstrong), 'do me the honour to try this snuff, 'tis real French rappee.
'But, Sir, though I have had to do these things, which you or any other man of nerve would do with a sufficient motive, I never hurt any man without a necessity for it.

My money I've made fairly, though in great measure by play, and no man can say I ever promised that which I did not perform.

'Tis quite true I killed Beauclerc in the manner described by Irons.