"A revolution can be neither made nor..." - Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte

“France is invaded; I am leaving to take command of my troops, and, with God's help and their valor, I hope soon to drive the enemy beyond the frontier.”

“If you know a country's geography, you can understand and predict its foreign policy.”

“Adversity is the midwife of genius”

“Everything I see about me is sowing the seeds of a revolution that is inevitable, though I shall not have the pleasure of seeing it. The lightning is so close at hand that it will strike at the first chance, and then there will be a pretty uproar. The young are fortunate, for they will see fine things.”

“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”

“The lyrics stand today (1980). They're still my feeling about politics. I want to see the plan. I want to know what you're going to do after you've knocked it all down. I mean, can't we use some of it? What's the point of bombing Wall Street? If you want to change the system, change the system. It's no good shooting people.”

“I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.”

“It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.”

“I would feel real trapped in this life if I didn't know I could commit suicide at any time.”