"One should never forbid what one lacks..." - Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
More by Napoleon Bonaparte
“We should always go before our enemies with confidence, otherwise our apparent uneasiness inspires them with greater boldness.”
“I drink Champagne when I win, to celebrate...and I drink Champagne when I lose, to console myself.”
“If you build an army of 100 lions and their leader is a dog, in any fight, the lions will die like a dog. But if you build an army of 100 dogs and their leader is a lion, all dogs will fight as a lion”
More on Power
“The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson - and I am not wholly excepting the Administration of W. W. The country is going through a repetition of Jackson's fight with the Bank of the United States - only on a far bigger and broader basis.”
“If I stay on for the time being, bearing the burden at my age, it is not because of love for power or office. I have had an ample share of both. If I stay it is because I have a feeling that I may, through things that have happened, have an influence about what I care about above all else, the building of a sure and lasting peace.”
“I could have knocked him out in the 3rd round but I wanted to do it slowly, So he would remember this night for a long time.”
More on Control
“Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.”
“He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.”
“Towards the avoidance of a piece of verbal confusion: What is intended to be actively destroyed must first of all have been firmly grasped; what crumbles away crumbles away, but cannot be destroyed.”