"To listen to the interests of all..." - Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte

“It is not by whining that one carries out the job of king.”

“Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.”

“A true master of politics is able to calculate, down to the smallest fraction, the advantages to which he may put his very faults.”

“The dead should not rule the living”

“Violence must be inflicted once for all; people will then forget what it tastes like and so be less resentful. Benefits must be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.”

“Of the best rulers, The people only know that they exist; the next best they love and praise the next they fear; and the next they revile. When they do not command the people's faith, some will lose faith in them, and then they resort to oaths! But of the best when their task is accomplished, their work done, the people all remark, We have done it ourselves.”

“A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.”

“The men who carry their points do not need to inquire of their constituents what they should say, but are themselves the country which they represent: nowhere are its emotions or opinions so instant and so true as in them; nowhere so pure from a selfish infusion.”

“In the United States, anybody can be President. That's the problem.”