contradict quotes

We were Caesars, there being nobody to contradict us.

- Pierre-Esprit Radisson
Attributed boast of the coureur de bois in the Canadian North West. Quoted in Arthur T Adams (ed) The Explorations of Pierre- Esprit Radisson (1961).

Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)

-Walt(er) Whitman
  Leaves of Grass,'Song of Myself', section 51.