“To have command is to have all the power you will ever need. To have all the power you will ever need, is to have the world in the palm of you hand.”

It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.

In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought.

Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud, Hatch out.

Caesar is not above the grammarians.

Let them hate me, provided they respect my conduct.

To be a good shepherd is to shear the flock, not skin it!

I shall always be consistent and never change my ways so long as I am in my senses; but for the sake of precedent the Senate should beware of binding itself to support the acts of any man, since he might through some mischance suffer a change.

The purpose of life is to obey the hidden command which ensures harmony among all and creates an ever better world.

Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.

Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.

Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King’s daughter,

I did not take this dress or do anything but by the command of Our Lord and of the Angels.

He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.