In all things there is a law of cycles.
Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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 injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.