Quotes from Napoleon Bonaparte

God has decreed that there be sick and poor in this world, but in the next it will be the other way around.

I am a monarch of God's creation, and you reptiles of the earth dare not oppose me. I render an account of my government to none save God and Jesus Christ.

The populace judges of the power of God by the power of the priests.

God is on the side of the heaviest cannon.

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.

The world soffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people. But because of the silence of the good people.

Revolutions are good times for soldiers of talent and courage.

A beautiful woman like eyes, and a good heart; One is a beautiful thing, and other treasures.

A Government protected by foreigners will never be accepted by a free people.

In matters of government, justice means force as well as virtue.

To listen to the interests of all marks an ordinary government; to foresee them marks a great government.

Where the Government is weak, military sway prevails.

What is the government? Nothing, unless supported by opinion.

War is like government, a matter of tact.

The true policy of government is to make use of aristocracy, but under the forms and in the spirit of democracy.

The art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs.

Great men grow tired of contentedness.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

History is written by the winners.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

History paints the human heart.

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.

I shall be an Attila to Venice.

A battle sometimes decides everything; and sometimes the most trifling thing decides the fate of a battle.