In February 2025 social media posts, U.S. President Donald Trump shared this quote usually attributed to French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte: "He who saves his Country does not violate any Law." ...

It first appeared in "Maximes et pensées de Napoléon" by French author Honoré de Balzac. The book, published in 1838, 23 years after Napoleon's death in exile, is a compilation of aphorisms ...

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The most commonly cited French version of the quote is Celui ... de Napoléon (Napoleon's mottos and thoughts) by the writer Honoré de Balzac, published in 1833. Balzac does not cite any source ...

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It originally appeared in 'Maximes et pensées de Napoléon', a book by French author Honore de Balzac, published in 1838—17 years after Napoleon's exile and death. In the book, Maxim 97 states in ...

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