"There is no real force without justice...." - Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte
There is no real force without justice.
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“We are made weak both by idleness and distrust of ourselves. Unfortunate, indeed, is he who suffers from both. If he is a mere individual he becomes nothing; if he is a king he is lost.”
“I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne.”
“Remember that a man, a true man, never hates. His rages and his bad moods never last beyond the present moment-like electric shocks.”
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“Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.”
“Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”
“And when he is obliged to take the life of any one, to do so when there is a proper justification and manifest reason for it; but above all he must abstain from taking the property of others, for men forget more easily the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony.”
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“The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.”
“For as the law is set over the magistrate, even so are the magistrates set over the people. And therefore, it may be truly said, "that the magistrate is a speaking law, and the law is a silent magistrate.”
“Words are containers for power”