"Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed."

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

"For a man to be in love with himself is to be a rival to himself."

"It is a strange desire, to seek power and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self."

"The root of all evil is the love of money."