“A man with a club [bat] is a law-maker, a man to be obeyed, but not necessarily conciliated.”
“He had killed man, the noblest game of all, and he had killed in the face of the law of club and fang.”
“What in Mandela was seen as an almost saintly ability to conciliate could, in a lesser man, be read as weak-kneed populism.”
“In the absence of law, winner is the law maker.”
“A man chooses...a slave obeys.”
“While man is God's creature, 'tis impossible that he should not owe all possible subjection and obedience to God his Maker. He must first cease to be a creature, or God cease to be His rightful and supreme Governor, before the obligation to obey God can cease.”