Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

Few revolutions succeed, and when they do, you often discover they did not gain what you hoped for, and you condemn yourself to perpetual fear, as the parties you defeated may always regain power and work for your ruin.

Increasingly, the state system has been eroding. Terrorists have exploited this weakness by burrowing into the state system in order to attack it.

In the final analysis, terror is also another proof of the fact that the superpower is not really a superpower. It was vulnerable.

I will not give up my office alive.

To strengthen a weak government, we must reduce its power.

The weak are always at war with the stronger; that is the source of eternal hatreds.

Republics are in the beginning and for a time industrious, but they finally destroy themselves because they are badly constituted. I dread the consolidation of the States and hope for a good national Government from the present Division of the States with a feeble Executive.

We have tried everything to prevent this, but they have got too powerful, and there is nothing for us but for our friends to go into their meetings and disturb the harmony of them, and create division.

Liberty is not wanting in popular (democratic) states; nay, they have rather too much of it, since it degenerates into licentiousness. Hence it is that they are ever tottering and weak. Intestine commotions, or foreign attacks, often throw them into consternation.

One does not make war except to preserve one's own possessions or to acquire those of others.

We have to entrust power to someone, but nobody can be entrusted with power. That is our dilemma.

The proximate cause of Iraq's unraveling was the increasing authoritarian, sectarian, and corrupt conduct of the Iraqi government and its leader after the departure of the last U.S. combat forces in 2011.

From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?

Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness

A bully has no respect for a weakling and the way to stop a bully is not to be weak. The way to stop a bully from ever being a bully is to say: "I'm as strong as you. Anything you do to me, I can do to you." We are going for nuclear and conventional disarmament but we're going about it in the right way.

We want peace with all our hearts. But peace cannot be achieved through weakness.

Whatever I fight weakens me. Whatever I cooperate with strengthens me.

This American government - what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will.

For, in truth, there is no sure way of holding other than by destroying

To come under siege was the inevitable fate of power.

For we both alike know that into the discussion of human affairs the question of justice enters only where the pressure of necessity is equal, and that the powerful exact what they can, and the weak grant what they must.

Nine out of ten significant people have to do with money or war!

Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, will not be given up without a struggle.

In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.

Where words prevail not, violence prevails.