Quotes from Napoleon Bonaparte

All religions have been made by men.

Knowledge and history are the enemies of religion.

Religion is, in fact, the dominion of the soul; it is the hope, the anchor of safety, the deliverance from evil. What a service has Christianity rendered to humanity!

Everything is more or less organized matter. To think so is against religion, but I think so just the same.

What a solace Christianity must be to one who has an undoubted conviction of its truth!

The poor man commands respect; the beggar must always excite anger.

In these days the invention of printing, and the diffusion of knowledge, render historical calumnies a little less dangerous: truth will always prevail in the long run, but how slow its progress!

Since the discovery of printing, knowledge has been called to power, and power has been used to make knowledge a slave.

Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

The only way to lead people is to show them a future: a leader is a dealer in hope.

One can lead a nation only by helping it see a bright outlook. A leader is a dealer in hope.

There are two levers for moving men - interest and fear.

When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.

Leaders have to be dealers in hope.

The inevitable end of multiple chiefs is that they fade and disappear for lack of unity.

Every French soldier carriers a marshal's baton in his knapsack.

The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.

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

Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.

The admiral needs only one science, that of navigation. The general needs all the sciences.

A good sketch is better than a long speech.

Life is strewn with so many dangers, and can be the source of so many misfortunes, that death is not the greatest of them.

The greatest ornament of an illustrious life is modesty and humility, which go a great way in the character even of the most exalted princes.