«That we are stronger than them, that we can drag them through the mud and push their faces into the rutted tracks of the canons and deafen their ears on black powder, does not necessitate or prove our own legitimacy. That we have always been stronger than them, that we have always dragged them through the mud and pushed their faces into the rutted tracks of the canons and deafened their ears on black powder, this does not necessitate or our legitimacy either. For the Watchers were once draggers, the weak once strong, the deaf once deafeners. We have not changed.»
« If we do not like the Watchers, and certainly we do not, and if they are not doing a job, which they are also certainly not, then it is on us to do both the firing and the Watching.»