Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
In careless ignorance they think it civilization, when in reality it is a portion of their slavery...To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false pretenses, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.
The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.