A Constitution should be short and obscure. – Napoleon Bonaparte
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues. – Napoleon Bonaparte

A Constitution should be short and obscure. – Napoleon Bonaparte
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues. – Napoleon Bonaparte
The most insupportable of tyrannies is that of inferiors. – Napoleon Bonaparte
There are two levers for moving men — interest and fear. – 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