A Constitution should be short and obscure. – Napoleon Bonaparte
When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity. – Napoleon Bonaparte

A Constitution should be short and obscure. – Napoleon Bonaparte
When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity. – Napoleon Bonaparte
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. – Napoleon Bonaparte
When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes. – Napoleon Bonaparte
The words of the Constitution are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior decisions that they leave the individual Justice free, if indeed they do not compel him, to gather meaning not from reading the Constitution but from reading life. – Felix Frankfurter