Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
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You think you are too intelligent to believe in God. I am not like you.
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More glorious to merit a sceptre than to possess one.
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My waking thoughts are all of thee. Your portrait and the remembrance of last night's delirium have robbed my senses of repose. Sweet and incomparable Josephine, what an extraordinary influence you have over my heart. Are you vexed? Do I see you sad? Are you ill at ease? My soul is broken with grief, and there is no rest for your lover.
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Jesus Christ was more than man.
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Democracy may become frenzied, but it has feelings and can be moved. As for aristocracy, it is always cold and never forgives.
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Do you know what amazes me more than anything else? The impotence of force to organize anything.
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It is an ambassador's duty to stand up for his nation's foreign policy in any era and under any government whatsoever. Ambassadors are, in the full meaning of the term, titled spies.
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Destiny urges me to a goal of which I am ignorant. Until that goal is attained I am invulnerable, unassailable. When Destiny has accomplished her purpose in me, a fly may suffice to destroy me.
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War is like government, a matter of tact.
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One must learn to forgive and not to hold a hostile, bitter attitude of mind, which offends those about us and prevents us from enjoying ourselves. One must recognize human shortcomings and adjust himself to them rather than to be constantly finding fault with them.
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A man is known by his conduct to his wife, to his family, and to those under him.
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Called to the throne by the voice of the people, my maxim has always been: A career open to talent without distinction of birth. It is this system of equality for which the European oligarchy detests me.
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I would believe any religion that could prove it had existed since the beginning of the world. But when I see Socrates, Plato, Moses, and Mohammed I do not think there is such a one. All religions owe their origin to man.
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Mankind are in the end always governed by superiority of intellectual faculties, and none are more sensible of this than the military profession. When, on my return from Italy, I assumed the dress of the Institute, and associated with men of science, I knew what I was doing: I was sure of not being misunderstood by the lowest drummer boy in the army.
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If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
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We must serve the people worthily, and not occupy ourselves in trying to please them. The best way, to gain their affections is to do them good.
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Terrorism, War & Bankruptcy are caused by the privatization of money, issued as a debt and compounded by interest.
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Never lose sight of this maxim, that you should establish your cantonments at the most distant and best protected point from the enemy, especially where a surprise is possible. By this means you will have time to unite all your forces before he can attack you.
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The best medicine against the grapes of wrath is a whiff of grapeshot.
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History paints the human heart.
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A legislator must know how to take advantage of even the defects of those he wants to govern. The art consists in making others work rather than in wearing oneself out.
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I am a soldier and accustomed to risking my life every day. I am full of the fire of youth; I cannot act with the restraint of an accomplished diplomat.
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Tis a principle of war that when you can use the lightning, 'tis better than cannon.
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The spectacle of a field of battle after the combat, is sufficient to inspire Princes with the love of peace, and the horror of war.