Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

Quotes

• The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

• Victory belongs to the most persevering.

• Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

• A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

• Ability is nothing without opportunity.

• Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

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

• He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

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

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

• Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

• In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

• It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

• It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

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

• Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

• Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

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

• The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.

• 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.