Guilt is abscent when the act is justified.

For socialists, not just the wealth, but the guilt, must be redistributed

How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!

Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous to the author of the crime. This is the first punishment of guilt that no one who is guilty is acquitted at the judgment seat of his own conscience. [Lat., Exemplo quodcumque malo committitur, ipsi Displicet auctori. Prima est haec ultio, quod se Judice nemo nocens absolvitur.]

Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed. [Lat., In ipsa dubitatione facinus inest, etiamsi ad id non pervererint.]