The only time it isn't good for you is when you write or when you fight.You have to do that cold.But it always helps my shooting. Modern life, too, is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief. 394

-Hemingway, Ernest Millar
  Of whisky. Letter to Ivan Kashkin,19  Aug.

   Every man who comes to England is entitled to the protection of the English law, whatever oppression he may heretofore have suffered, and whatever may be the colour of his skin, whether it is black or whether it is white.

-Mansfield,William Murray, 1st Earl
   Judgement on the Somersett slavery case, May.

I may boldly speak In right, though proud oppression will not hear me!

-Otway,Thomas
  Venice Preserved, or a Plot Discovered, act1, sc.1.