“They make a desolation and call it peace.”

“Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.”

“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.”

“A bad peace is worse than war.”

“It is a principle of nature to hate those whom you have injured.”

“The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.”

“Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.”