Napoléon Bonaparte Quotes

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.

A woman laughing is a woman conquered.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

You can ask me for anything you like, except time

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

Imagination governs the world.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

History is written by the winners.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

Music is what tell us that the human race is greater than we realize.

A revolution is an idea, taken up by bayonets.

The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain.

Courage is like love, it must have hope for nourishment.

Un bon croquis vaut mieux qu'un long discours (A good sketch is better than a long speech)