"When a government is dependent upon bankers..." - Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte

“The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those chosen to attain their full worth.”

“In revolution there are only two sorts of men, those who cause them and those who profit by them.”

“A Government protected by foreigners will never be accepted by a free people.”

“Great part of that order which reigns among mankind is not the effect of government. It has its origin in the principles of society and the natural constitution of man. It existed prior to government, and would exist if the formality of government was abolished. The mutual dependence and reciprocal interest which man has upon man, and all the parts of civilised community upon each other, create that great chain of connection which holds it together.”

“Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding.”

“Most persons think that a state in order to be happy ought to be large; but even if they are right, they have no idea of what is a large and what a small state.... To the size of states there is a limit, as there is to other things, plants, animals, implements; for none of these retain their natural power when they are too large or too small, but they either wholly lose their nature, or are spoiled.”

“What I'd have liked would have been the money and the hit records without the fame.”

“Each piece of money is a mere coin, or means of circulation, only so long as it actually circulates.”

“I've been on a 46-year diet of olives and alcohol. The latter I consume. The former I save and use over again in more alcohol. In my lifetime, I imagine, I have consumed at least $200,000 worth of whisky.”