Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
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.
More Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
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Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.
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In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them.
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A true man hates no one.
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A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
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Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.
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There are so many laws that no one is safe from hanging.
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If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
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It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
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Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.
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The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain.
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Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.
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Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded his empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for him.
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The laws of circumstance are abolished by new circumstances.
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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
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