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• The best way to keep one's word is not to give it. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
• A leader is a dealer in hope. -- Napoleon Bonaparte, emperor of France (1769-1821)
• Nothing is beautiful unless it is large. Vastness and immensity can make you forget a great many weaknesses.
  -- Emperor Napoleon I, predicting the development of X-window in 1813...
• It is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. --Napoleon I
• The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence as for his repose.
  -- Sir Edward Coke (1549-1634) -- Semayne's Case, 5 Rep, 91...
• Chief of the Army. -- Napoleon I [Napoleon Bonaparte], 1821.
• Therefore, one should never admit a garrison larger than one's own forces, especially when composed of barbarians.
  -- Polybios, writing in the mid-2nd century BC (paraphrased), after an account of the betrayal of Epeiros by its mercenary Gallic garrison to a passing fleet of Illyrian pirates....
• Even Napoleon had his Watergate