"History paints the human heart...." - Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte

“It should not be believed that a march of three or four days in the wrong direction can be corrected by a countermarch. As a rule, this is to make two mistakes instead of one.”

“In war the simplest manoeuvres are the best.”

“Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”

“Politics...You see, it depends on what kind of politics. What we did during my father's generation was a duty. And it was beautiful because its goal was the conquest of freedom.”

“Too often the past has been twisted to fit the visions and agendas of the present.”

“In America, one of the great liberal documents of the world is the Declaration of Independence. One of the great conservative documents of the world is the Constitution of the United States. We need both documents to build a country. One to get it started - liberal. And the other to help maintain the structure over the years - conservative.”

“Our task is not to liberate the oppressed, but to liberate the oppressors”

“My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.”

“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.”