"Truth is in things, and not in words."

"In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers."

"There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future."

"Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister."

"The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!"

"America's political system has evolved over the last 50 years in ways that have enhanced the power of business lobbies."

"Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself."

"I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap."