“Anarchy is the stepping stone to absolute power.”

— Napoleon I of France

Source: Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleon's War Maxims: With His Social and Political Thoughts (1804-15), Gale & Polden, (1899) p. 148

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French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French 1769–1821

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