Only he who has no use for the empire is fit to be entrusted with it.

He who steals a belt buckle pays with his life; he who steals a state gets to be a feudal lord.

The petty thief is imprisoned but the big thief becomes a feudal lord.

Thus, those who say they would have right without its correlate, wrong; or good government without its correlate, misrule, do not apprehend the great principles of the universe, nor the nature of all creation.