Liberty Hyde Bailey Quotes

The brave man, indeed, calls himself lord of the land, through his iron, through his blood.

Government is founded on property, property is founded on conquest, and conquest is founded on Power — and Power is founded on brain and brawn

This world… belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak.

Yes I’m a beast and I feast when I conquer!

Until you stalk and overrun, you cannot devour anyone. -Hobbes

The most important thing is to be strong. With strength, one can conquer others, and to conquer others gives one virtue.

They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force--nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.

No leader, however great, can long continue unless he wins battles. The battle decides all.

The creator's concern is the conquest of nature. The parasite's concern is the conquest of men.

Arise, go forth, and conquer as of old.

Power exhibits itself under two distinct forms,--strength and force,--each possessing peculiar qualities, and each perfect in its own sphere. Strength is typified by the oak, the rock, the mountain. Force embodies itself in the cataract, the tempest, and the thunder-bolt.

A thing of nature. For every Push, there is a Pull. A consequence.

Battles decide everything.

Might is a fine thing, and useful for many purposes; for "one goes further with a handful of might than with a bagful of right."

To come under siege was the inevitable fate of power.

I am the dragon, and you call me insane.

At the banquet table of nature, there are no reserved seats. You get what you can take, and you keep what you can hold. If you can't take anything, you won't get anything, and if you can't hold anything, you won't keep anything. And you can't take anything without organization.

Well I stand up next to a mountain, and I chop it down with the edge of my hand

The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.

Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding

The sea's only gifts are harsh blows and, occasionally, the chance to feel strong.

Oh yes, right—right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?

all history shows that the hand that cradles the rock has ruled the world, not the hand that rocks the cradle!

We do not by any means think it desirable that the kingdom of righteousness and peace should be established on earth (because under any circumstances it would be the kingdom of the profoundest mediocrity and Chinaism); we rejoice in all men, who like ourselves love danger, war and adventure, who do not make compromises, nor let themselves be captured, conciliated and stunted; we count ourselves among the conquerors; we ponder over the need of a new order of things, even of a new slavery for every strengthening and elevation of the type "man" also involves a new form of slavery.

The weak are meat the strong do eat.