"A legislator must know how to take..." - Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte

“The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.”

“It is only with prudence, sagacity, and much dexterity that great aims are accomplished, and all obstacles surmounted. Otherwise nothing is accomplished.”

“The army is the true nobility of our country.”

“The sage embraces the one, and is an example to the world.”

“I'm not just a candidate, I'm the President”

“A government can be no better than the public opinion which sustains it.”

“The sage governs by emptying senses and filling bellies.”

“A small knowledge of human nature will convince us, that, with far the greatest part of mankind, interest is the governing principle... Few men are capable of making a continual sacrifice of all views of private interest, or advantage, to the common good. It is vain to exclaim against the depravity of human nature on this account; the fact is so, the experience of every age and nation has proved it and we must in a great measure, change the constitution of man, before we can make it otherwise. No institution, not built on the presumptive truth of these maxims can succeed.”

“Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.”