Francis Bacon — "Knowledge is power."

"Paradoxically, Bacon holds that the internally colonized may be treated with greater severity, as suppressed rebels, than the externally colonized, who are more fitly a subject of the ius gentium."

"It is a strange desire, to seek power and to lose liberty."

"Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend."

"Truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not show the masques and mummeries and triumphs of the world half so stately and daintily as candle-lights."

"Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws."