Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
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Men have their virtues and their vices, their heroisms and their perversities; men are neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but possess and practice all that there is of good and bad here below. Such is the general rule. Temperament, education, the accidents of life, are modifying factors. Outside of this, everything is ordered arrangement, everything is chance. Such has been my rule of expectation and it has usually brought me success.
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The Concordat is not the victory of any one party but the consolidation of all.
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Across a chasm of eighteen hundred years, Jesus Christ makes a demand which is beyond all others difficult to satisfy; He asks for that which a philosopher may often seek in vain at the hands of his friends, or a father of his children, or a bride of her spouse, or a man of his brother. He asks for the human heart; He will have it entirely to Himself. He demands it unconditionally; and forthwith His demand is granted. Wonderful!
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Everything is more or less organized matter. To think so is against religion, but I think so just the same.
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Good and decent people must be protected and persuaded by gentle means, but the rabble must be led by terror.
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A leader has the right to be beaten, but never the right to be surprised.
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Man, not men, is the most important consideration.
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It is rare that a legislature reasons. It is too quickly impassioned.
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I have noticed in every campaign that I have fought-that there is a key segment of time, somewhere between 13 and 15 minutes in which the battle is won or lost. I focus on that segment of time, and I win.
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I have so often been mistaken that I no longer blush for it.
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I know men, and I tell you, Jesus is more than a man. Comparison is impossible between Him and any other human being who ever lived, because He was the Son of God.
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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.
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The bayonet has always been the weapon of the brave and the chief tool of victory.
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A great people may be killed, but they cannot be intimidated.
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Every French soldier carriers a marshal's baton in his knapsack.
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The confidence with which a Sovereign is invested, is solid only when it is sanctioned by the suffrages of the people, who clothed him with the supreme magistracy.
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A great Nation should have a fixed Government, so that the death of one man should not overturn it.
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True character stands the test of emergencies. Do not be mistaken, it is weakness from which the awakening is rude.
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For today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created, for the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideology. Where each worker may bloom secure from the pests of contradictory and confusing truths. Our Unification of Thought is more powerful a weapon than any fleet or army on earth. We are one people. With one will. One resolve. One cause. Our enemies shall talk themselves to death. And we will bury them with their own confusion. We shall prevail!
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So you think the police foresees and knows everything. The police invents more than it discovers.
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Generals are not to be too scrupulous.
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When Monarchs abuse the rights with which they have been invested by the confidence of the people, and bring down upon their heads the calamity of war, the people have the right to withdraw their allegiance.
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War is not at all such a difficult art as people think. . . . In reality it would seem that he is vanquished who is afraid of his adversary and the the whole secret lies in that.
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A mathematician of the first rank, Laplace quickly revealed himself as only a mediocre administrator; from his first work we saw that we had been deceived. Laplace saw no question from its true point of view; he sought subtleties everywhere; had only doubtful ideas, and finally carried the spirit of the infinitely small into administration.