Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1911 — SAYINGS OF NAPOLEON. [ARTICLE]

SAYINGS OF NAPOLEON.

•A constitution should be short and obscure. I When it comes* to conspiracy, everything is permissible. See that proprieties SJe observed and that notbiiig ridiculous is done. I I had rather talk to sobers than to lawyers. Those make\me nerv- - ous. I have tried not to be the man party. I refused to be the tool of any party. Strike hard at any one, whoever he may be, who shows the first signs of wabbling. Capture that rascal Georges dead or alive. Ts you ever catch him, have him shot within 24 hours \ Penal laws should read as though engraved on tables of marble and should be as concise as the Decalogue. ) • I want no triumphal arches, no ceremonies. I have too good an opinion of myself to put any value on 3uch flimflams. There is no greater coward than I am when I am drawing up a campaign. lam like a woman in the throes of childbirth. It is peace we have conquered. That is what must be said in every newspaper; every theater; what must be repeated in prose, in verse, even In ballads. What a thing is imagination! Here are men who don’t know me, who have never seen me, but who only know of me, and they are moved by my presence; they would do anything, for me. —“The Corsican,” by R. M. Johnston.