Sami Abdul-Rahman Quotes

To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false pretenses, they call empire and where they make a desert they call it peace.

How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.

Every country we conquer feeds us. And these are just a few of the good things we'll have when this war is over. Slaves working for us everywhere while we sit back with a fork in our hands and a whip on our knees.

We … granted among other things free and ample faculty to the aforesaid King Alfonso – to invade, search out, capture, vanquish, and subdue all Saracens and pagans whatsoever, and other enemies of Christ wheresoever placed … and all movable and immovable goods whatsoever held and possessed by them and to reduce their persons to perpetual slavery, and to apply and appropriate to himself and his successors the kingdoms … and to convert them to his and their use and profit.

In careless ignorance they think it civilization, when in reality it is a portion of their slavery...To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false pretenses, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.

If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.

Give a man a free hand and he'll try to put it all over you.

The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.

We are come for your good, for all your goods.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them.

We will bring imperialism to its knees.

One conquered nation is one too many.

When our kings succeeded to the crown of England, the ministers of that nation took a short way to ruin us … All of our affairs, since the union of crowns, have been managed by the advice of English ministers, and the principle offices of the kingdom filled with such men as the court of England would be subservient to their designs.

There is no nation on earth that wasn’t built on a conquest.

We will make your women bear our children who will become your masters.

Those who exercise power always arrange matters so as to give their tyranny the appearance of justice.

A French bastard arriving with armed banditti and establishing himself the King of England against the consent of the natives is in plain terms a very paltry rascally original and certainly has no divinity in it…. If the succession runs in the line of the conqueror the nation runs in the line of being conquered and ought to rescue itself

All empires are created of blood and fire.

Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All through history mankind has been bullied by scum.

I think it's a dangerous thing for anyone to have power over other people.

This is the Cuzco asking you to pull on your armor and, mounted on the ample back of a powerful horse, cleave a path through the defenseless flesh of a naked Indian flock whose human wall collapses and disappears beneath the four hooves of the galloping beast.

To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.

It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.