Napoleon Bonaparte Law Quotations

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

Public morals are natural complement of all laws they are by themselves an entire code.

I closed the gulf of anarchy and brought order out of chaos. I rewarded merit regardless of birth or wealth, wherever I found it. I abolished feudalism and restored equality to all regardless of religion and before the law. I fought the decrepit monarchies of the Old Regime because the alternative was the destruction of all this. I purified the Revolution.

The practice of law sharpens the mind by making it narrow.

The law, that is what makes men stay honest.

Who saves his country violates no law.

It strengthens the bonds between nations to have the same civil laws and the same monetary system.

Timid and cowardly soldiers cause the loss of a nation's independence; but pusillanimous magistrates destroy the empire of the laws, the rights of the throne, and even social order itself.

We are nothing but by the law.

Do not talk to me of goodness, of abstract justice, of nature law. Necessity is the highest law, public welfare is the highest justice.

Laws which are consistent in theory often prove chaotic in practice.

Not one cent should be raised unless it is in accord with the law.

The laws of circumstance are abolished by new circumstances.

There are so many laws that no one is safe from hanging.