"Which is heavier: a soldier's pack or..." - Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte

“Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting.”

“Power is what they like - it is the greatest of all aphrodisiacs.”

“There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.”

“Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.”

“If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.”

“Half the walk is but retracing our steps. We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance, in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return-prepared to send beck our embalmed hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms. If you are ready to leave father and mother, brother and sister, and wife and child and friends and never see them again,-if you have paid your debts and made your will, and settled your affairs and are a free man, then you are ready for a walk.”

“What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment & death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment ... inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose.”

“The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth.”

“The master not only governs the slave without his consent, but he governs him by a set of rules altogether different from those which he prescribes for himself. Allow ALL the governed anequal voice in the government, and that, and that only, is self-government.”