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"I am for the Whites because I am White; I have no other reason, and that one is good." (Napoleon went on to order the extermination of Haitians, which failed due to Poland and while having more immediate concerns).
"I am removed from human nature, I crave solitude and isolation, grandeur bores me." From a private letter to his brother.
"I know how to, when necessary, leave the skin of the lion and take that of the fox."
"It is by becoming Christian that I defeated the vandeans, it is by becoming Muslim that I tamed Egypt, it is by becoming ultramountain that I won the spirits of the Italian people, and if I were to rule the Jews, I would rebuild the Temple of Solomon." (Shoddy translation).
"I live in constant defiance, every day, new plots against my life hatch, the Bourbons now even see me as their sole target."
"Remember that I walk alongside the god of war and the god of fortune" ~ random statement he made to the corrupt foreign bribed parliament he later overthrew.
"Men of genius are meteors destined to burn in order to fill their century with light."
"If you take faith away from the masses, you will be left with nothing but a rabble of thieves."
"Freedom of thought has been the first conquest of this century. The emperor wishes it to be maintained."
"To govern through a party is to doom oneself to become dependent upon it someday, I shall not fall into that trap. I am National."
"Inside a revolutionary state, there are only two kinds of people, patriots and suspects."
"Like Carthage, England must be destroyed."