“For what fortress, what city, in the wide extent of the Roman empire, can hope to exist, secure and impregnable, if it is our pleasure that it should be erased from the earth?”

Superficial goals lead to superficial results.

Everybody has value; even if to serve as a bad example.

Trample the weak. Hurdle the dead.

Do not underestimate the power of an enemy, no matter how great or small, to rise against you another day.

Chieftains must understand that the spirit of the law is greater than its letter.

It takes less courage to criticize the decisions of others than to stand by your own.

There, where I have passed, the grass will never grow gain.

It is unfortunate when final decisions are made by chieftains headquartered miles away from the front, where they can only guess at conditions and potentialities known only to the captain of the battlefield.

If an incompetent chieftain is removed, seldom do we appoint his highest-ranking subordinate to his place

Never arbitrate. Arbitration allows a third party to determine your destiny. It is a resort of the weak.

It’s not that I succeed, it’s that everyone else has to fail, horribly, preferably in front of their parents.

That has a particular history and I think we rather lost it in the 19th Century, we became so much part of empire and colonialism.

Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?

White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires.

Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won’t fall.

Because girls who were building empires for themselves did not need kingdoms to shine.

Radiohead’s already got their yachts and mansions. Sharon Osbourne already has her empire

Since they had a lot of property and controlled an empire of propaganda, they made the European governments helpless.

Whether slaves or free, they reign, because their empire is that of the affections.