Quotes By Napoleon Bonaparte

Nothing renders a nation so despicable as religious despotism.

From first to last, Jesus is the same; always the same--majestic and simple, infinitely severe and infinitely gentle.

The best generals are those who have served in the artillery.

We frustrate many designs against us by pretending not to see them.

In time of revolution, with perseverance and courage, a soldier should think nothing impossible.

While I live I will never resort to irredeemable paper.

Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies.

In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them.

I closed the gulf of anarchy and brought order out of chaos. I rewarded merit regardless of birth or wealth, wherever I found it. I abolished feudalism and restored equality to all regardless of religion and before the law. I fought the decrepit monarchies of the Old Regime because the alternative was the destruction of all this. I purified the Revolution.

If I had not been defeated in Acre against Jezzar Pasha of Turk. I would conquer all of the East.

I am conquered less by fortune than by the egotism and ingratitude of my companions in arms.

It is not enough to give orders they must be obeyed.

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!

There are two kinds of fidelity, that of dogs and that of cats; you, gentleman, have the fidelity of cats who never leave the house.

In war it is not men, but the man who counts.

Nothing makes the future look so rosy as to contemplate it through a glass of Chambertin.

Many a one commits a reprehensible action, who is at bottom an honourable man, because man seldom acts upon natural impulse, but from some secret passion of the moment which lies hidden and concealed within the narrowest folds of his heart.

I know men; and I tell you that Jesus Christ is not a man. Superficial minds see a resemblance between Christ and the founders of empires, and the gods of other religions. That resemblance does not exist. There is between Christianity and whatever other religions the distance of infinity.

Better to have a known enemy than a forced ally.