Napoleon Bonaparte

“Imagination rules the world.”

“I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne.”

“One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.”

“It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.”

“Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.”

“Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.”

“A Constitution should be short and obscure.”

“The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.”

“The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.”

“There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.”

“It requires more courage to suffer than to die.”

“There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.”

“Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.”