Most Remarkable Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

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

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

The human race is governed by its imagination.

The world suffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people, but because of the silence of the good people.

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

A true man hates no one.

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

All religions have been made by men.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.

A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.

Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.

When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.

I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.