"Revolutions are like the most noxious dungheaps,..." - Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte

“I treat policies like war. I hoodwink one flank so as to trounce the other. In my family we kneel only to God.”

“It is exceptional and difficult to find in one man all the qualities necessary for a great general.”

“Envy is a declaration of inferiority.”

“It is up to us to organize the people. As for the reactionaries in China, it is up to us to organize the people to overthrow them. Everything reactionary is the same; if you do not hit it, it will not fall. This is also like sweeping the floor; as a rule, where the broom does not reach, the dust will not vanish of itself.”

“The upper class desire to remain so, the middle class wish to overthrow the upper class, and the lower class want a classless system.”

“Rioting is not revolutionary.”

“Perspective. You start looking at things differently, like everything's not so important. You don't take things so personally. Everyone changes, becomes better people. We all should get that chance.”

“[T]he people seem to have deposited the monarchical and taken up the republican government with as much ease as would have attended their throwing off an old and putting on a new suit of clothes.”

“My love is thaw'd; Which, like a waxen image 'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was”