Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

The happiness of society is the end of government.

The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.

That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy.

The role of the church and the government are fundamentally different. The church must always show compassion - always.

Government does not have a monopoly on compassion.

The legitimate object of government is "to do for the people what needs to be done, but which they cannot, by individual effort, do at all, or do so well, for themselves.

You’ve got to help people that are downtrodden and poor, and I just think that that’s part of our culture. You’ve got to help people that can’t help themselves.

We have to be guided by the interest of society and the development of the state.

Democracy is based upon empathy and the recognition that some decisions are solely for the community's benefit without regard to one's own narrow self-interest.

Service that benefits the community and those in need is an act that betters us all.

In the back of my mind, always, is the firmly held belief that public policies must serve the long-term interests and well-being of the community at large.

Civic participants don't aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who never participate.

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.

Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

For me, life is about experience and being a good person.

I hope that in my books there's an undertone of politics, basic tenets of how we should live.

For me, the only sources of moral values are the pursuit of understanding and the pursuit of happiness.

There's so much importance in honoring your everyday hero. It doesn't take money. It doesn't take connections. What matters is that people get involved. Whether your passion is gun control or food or whatever it may be, everybody needs to stop being so self-absorbed.

The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and happiness; the endeavour so to rule our lives that we may serve and bless mankind.

Let's put aside the politics and trust the people. Let's embrace the unique opportunity we all have; take the heat and make the hard and difficult decisions, knowing that we're doing it to make things better for the people of Illinois.

Americans are less selfish than some of our politicians believe and will respond with reason and resilience to passionate clarity.

You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.

My task as a citizen is to get the government to do more good and less inefficient and wasteful work.