I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay hands on everything they can get.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTEI am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay hands on everything they can get.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTEWhen a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes. Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTEThe reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTECourage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTEI know he’s a good general, but is he lucky?
NAPOLEON BONAPARTETo 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.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTEThe only victory over love is flight.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTEAs a rule it is circumstances that make men.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTEReligion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTEIn our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTEYou don’t reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTEWhat is the government? Nothing, unless supported by opinion.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTEIf I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTEGive me enough medals and I’ll win you any war
NAPOLEON BONAPARTEGreat men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTEIf you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
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