Quote from Calgacus, 
a Caledonian chieftain (now Scotland)
about the Roman conquerors:

These plunderers of the world, after exhausting the land by
their devastations, are rifling the ocean: stimulated by avarice, if their
enemy be rich; by ambition, if poor; unsatiated by the East and by the West:
the only people who behold wealth and indigence with equal avidity. To ravage,
to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire;
and where they make a desert, they call it peace.

clara