"Military despotism represses generous sentiments, priestly tyranny..." - Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte

“My dominion ends where that of conscience begins.”

“Men will risk their lives, even die for ribbons.”

“If the art of war were nothing but the art of avoiding risks, glory would become the prey of mediocre minds.... I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest.”

“The government burns down whole cities while the people are forbidden to light lamps.”

“No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each other.”

“What are kingdoms without justice? They're just gangs of bandits.”

“The animals were happy as they had never conceived it possible to be. Every mouthful of food was an acute positive pleasure, now that it was truly their own food, produced by themselves and for themselves, not doled out to them by a grudging master.”

“It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of my own people became a hunger for the freedom of all people, white and black. I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed.”

“Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches; and tho' avarice will preserve a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy.”