"Paradoxically, Bacon holds that the internally colonized may be treated with greater severity, as suppressed rebels, than the externally colonized, who are more fitly a subject of the ius gentium."

"He that is a master of himself, is a master of the world."

"It is a thing that ever proveth, that a man's fortune is the fruit of his own virtue."

"Conquest, acquisition of peoples and territory through force, followed by subjugation, confers a legal right and title."

"Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper."