"Europe thus divided into nationalities freely formed..." - Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte

“Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it.”

“This accession of territory affirms forever the power of the United States, and I have given England a maritime rival who sooner or later will humble her pride.”

“I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.”

“Nothing can be more useful to a man than a determination not to be hurried.”

“I have been happy . . . in believing that . . . whatever follies we may be led into as to foreign nations, we shall never give up our Union, the last anchor of our hope, and that alone which is to prevent this heavenly country from becoming an arena of gladiators.”

“One war, such as that of our Revolution, is enough for one life.”

“If Europe were once united in the sharing of its common inheritance there would be no limit to the happiness, the prosperity, and the glory which its three or four million people would enjoy.”

“From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.”

“To constrain the brute force of the people, the European governments deem it necessary to keep them down by hard labor, poverty and ignorance, and to take from them, as from bees, so much of their earnings, as that unremitting labor shall be necessary to obtain a sufficient surplus to sustain a scanty and miserable life.”