I treat policies like war. I hoodwink one flank so as to trounce the other. In my family we kneel only to God.
Napoleon BonaparteMy decision to destroy the authority of the blacks in Saint Domingue (Haiti) is not so much based on considerations of commerce and money, as on the need to block for ever the march of the blacks in the world.
Napoleon BonaparteMy star was fading, I felt the reins slipping out of my grasp, and could do nothing to stop it.
Napoleon Bonaparte