The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.

No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.

Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.

Great empires are not maintained by timidity.

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.

They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger… they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if poor… They ravage, they slaughter, they seize by false pretenses, and all of this they hail as the construction of empire. And when in their wake nothing remains but a desert, they call that peace.