Betrayal is terribly painful — God save me from my friends. I can protect myself from my enemies.

Betrayal is a form of ecstasy — anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.

Betrayal is the deepest wound. It is what remains of love, when love has gone.

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.

Colonialism is vulgar — The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.

Colonialism is the enforced spread of the rule of reason to all but the colonizers themselves

Colonialism is an act the British likely were so compelled to pursue because they were just looking tor a decent meal.

Colonialism is still here. It never died, it just changed names and hired local cops.

Delay is painful — Every delay, however trifling, seems too long to a man in haste.

Delay is unwise — Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Delay is unwise — Delays have dangerous ends.

Delay is a certain breeder of anger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.

Empire , like expanded gold, exchanges solid strength for feeble splendor.

Empire always tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate.

Empire is necessarily always claiming that it has a mission to enlighten, civilize, bring order and democracy, and that it uses force only as a last resort.