Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
744
AUTHOR:
Napoleon I (1769–1821)
QUOTATION:
The great art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs. (Ne pas laisser vieillir les hommes doit être le grand art du gouvernement.)
ATTRIBUTION:
NAPOLEON, letter to Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot, August 9, 1796.—Correspondance de Napoléon Ier, vol. 1, p. 532 (1858).
