"A constitution should be framed so as..." - Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte

“Europe is a molehill. All great empires and revolutions have been on the Orient; six hundred millions live there.”

“The English have no exaulted sentiments. They can all be bought.”

“To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.”

“I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries as long as they are chiefly agricultural; and this will be as long as there shall be vacant lands in any part of America. When they get piled upon one another in large cities as in Europe, they will become corrupt as in Europe.”

“The state is made for man, not man for the state.... That is to say, the state should be our servant and not we its slaves”

“Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so.”

“There are two things nobody should ever have to watch being made, sausage and laws.”

“The Constitution which at any time exists, 'till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole People is sacredly obligatory upon all.”

“We are always saying: Let the Law take its Course but what we really mean is: Let the Law take OUR Course.”