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I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
- Ralph Nader

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
- Napoleon

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
- Napoleon

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
- Napoleon

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
- Napoleon

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
- Napoleon

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets.
- Ogden Nash

The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them which we are missing.
- Gamel Nasser

Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
- George Jean Nathan

Of those who say nothing, few are silent.
- Thomas Neill

England expects every man to do his duty.
- Lord Nelson

Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source.
- Ron Nesen

Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.
- John von Neumann (1903-1957)

Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.
- Flower A. Newhouse

We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons.
- Alfred E. Newman

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
- Sir Isaac Newton

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
- Reinhold Niebuhr

Plato was a bore.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

What does not destroy me, makes me strong.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
- Friedrich Nietzsche

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

The doer alone learneth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

A ship is always referred to as "she" because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.
- Chester Nimitz

Greetings, I am pleased to see that we are different. May we together become greater than the sum of both of us.
- Leonard Nimoy

How can I lose to such an idiot?
- A shout from chessmaster Aaron Nimzovich (1886-1935)

I would have made a good Pope.
- Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994)

Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people.
- Richard Nixon

Voters quickly forget what a man says.
- Richard Nixon

When the president does it, that's means it is not illegal.
- Richard Nixon

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
- Alfred Nobel

Laws were made to be broken.
- Christopher North