Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
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Brave deeds are the monuments of brave men.
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Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.
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The affairs of war, like the destiny of battles, as well as empires, hang upon a spiders thread.
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Collective crimes incriminate no one.
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No amount of money will induce someone to lay down their life, but they will gladly do so for a bit of yellow ribbon.
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Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent.
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Peoples of Egypt , you will be told that I have come to destroy your religion. Do not believe it! Reply that I have come to restore your rights!
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To listen to the interests of all marks an ordinary government; to foresee them marks a great government.
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How can you have order in a state without religion? For, when one man is dying of hunger near another who is ill of surfeit, he cannot resign himself to this difference unless there is an authority which declares 'God wills it thus.' Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
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Much shedding of blood, many great actions, and triumphs, toil and perseverance are the end of all things human.
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The true policy of government is to make use of aristocracy, but under the forms and in the spirit of democracy.
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How many really capable men are children more than once during the day!
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Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses; but when you have bad news, arouse me immediately, for then there is not an instant to be lost.
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It should not be believed that a march of three or four days in the wrong direction can be corrected by a countermarch. As a rule, this is to make two mistakes instead of one.
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In revolution there are only two sorts of men, those who cause them and those who profit by them.
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A new-born Government must shine and astonish - the moment it loses its éclat it falls.
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The friendship of a great man is a favor of the gods.
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Men who have changed the world never achieved their success by winning the chief citizens to their side, but always by stirring the masses.
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Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.
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Our hour is marked, and no one can claim a moment of life beyond what fate has predestined.
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Which is heavier: a soldier's pack or a slave's chains?
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Arabia was idolatrous when, six centuries after Jesus, Muhammad introduced the worship of the God of Abraham, of Ishmael, of Moses, and Jesus. The Ariyans and some other sects had disturbed the tranquility of the east by agitating the question of the nature of the Father, the son, and the Holy Ghost. Muhammad declared that there was none but one God who had no father, no son and that the trinity imported the idea of idolatry.
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If you wage war, do it energetically and with severity. This is the only way to make it shorter and consequently less inhuman.
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Lead the ideas of your time and they will accompany and support you; fall behind them and they drag you along with them; oppose them and they will overwhelm you.