"Prussia was hatched from a cannon-ball...." - Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte

“Conscription is the vitality of a nation, the purification of its morality, and the real foundations of all its habits”

“The logical end to defensive warfare is surrender.”

“My waking thoughts are all of thee. Your portrait and the remembrance of last night's delirium have robbed my senses of repose. Sweet and incomparable Josephine, what an extraordinary influence you have over my heart. Are you vexed? Do I see you sad? Are you ill at ease? My soul is broken with grief, and there is no rest for your lover.”

“I have but one system of ethics for men and for nations - to be grateful, to be faithful to all engagements under all circumstances, to be open and generous, promoting in the long run even the interests of both”

“From the errors of other nations, let us learn wisdom.”

“Nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world.”

“When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.”

“Nothing affected me until I heard Elvis. Without Elvis there would be no Beatles.”

“A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.”