"The man fitted for affairs and authority..." - Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte

“The laws of circumstance are abolished by new circumstances.”

“Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it.”

“I have only one counsel for you - be master.”

“[It] is impossible for us to establish a living vital connection with the masses unless we will work for them, through them and in their midst, not as their patrons but as their servants.”

“When I was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, I would still have junior officers brief me. Usually these people knew more about the subject we were discussing than I did. I had to make sure that they felt confident enough to tell me everything they believed.”

“We cannot ask a man what he will do, and if we should, and he should answer us, we should despise him for it. Therefore we must take a man whose opinions are known.”

“If you have to eat crow, eat it while it's young and tender.”

“A man who wishes to make a profession of goodness in everything must necessarily come to grief among so many who are not good. Therefore, it is necessary for a prince, who wishes to maintain himself, to learn how not to be good, and to use this knowledge and not use it according to the necessity of the case.”

“Study: concentration of the mind on whatever will ultimately put something in your pocket.”