"In the last analysis, one must be..." - Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte

“If I had not been defeated in Acre against Jezzar Pasha of Turk. I would conquer all of the East.”

“Malice delights to blacken the characters of prominent men.”

“Revolutions are like the most noxious dungheaps, which bring into life the noblest vegetables.”

“Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.”

“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.”

“People too smart to get involved in politics are doomed to live in societies run by people who aren't.”

“Give them great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves and fight like devils.”

“The art of land warfare is an art of genius, of inspiration. On the sea nothing is genius or inspiration; everything is positive or empiric.”

“An army abroad is of little use unless there are prudent counsels at home.[Lat., Parvi enim sunt foris arma, nisi est consilium domi.]”