Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes, God Quotes, Men Quotes

How can you have order in a state without religion? For, when one man is dying of hunger near another who is ill of surfeit, he cannot resign himself to this difference unless there is an authority which declares 'God wills it thus.' Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

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It is an ambassador's duty to stand up for his nation's foreign policy in any era and under any government whatsoever. Ambassadors are, in the full meaning of the term, titled spies.

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Peoples of Egypt , you will be told that I have come to destroy your religion. Do not believe it! Reply that I have come to restore your rights!

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A constitution should be framed so as not to impede the action of government, nor force the government to its violation.

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I may have had many projects, but I never was free to carry out any of them. It did me little good to be holding the helm; no matter how strong my hands, the sudden and numerous waves were stronger still, and I was wise enough to yield to them rather than resist them obstinately and make the ship founder. Thus I never was truly my own master but was always ruled by circumstances.

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With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

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To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.

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Half of the people in the world are below average.

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War is the business of barbarians.

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Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies.

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The strong are good, only the weak are wicked.

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Prison, blood, death, create enthusiasts and martyrs, and bring forth courage and desperate resolution.

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We should wash our dirty linen at home.

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An army travels on its stomach. Soup makes the soldier.

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A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations, all fall, but the noise remains, and will reach to other generations.

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

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My business is to succeed, and I’m good at it. I create my Iliad by my actions, create it day by day.

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The purpose of religion is to keep the poor from killing the rich.

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Public opinion is a mysterious and invisible power, to which everything must yield. There is nothing more fickle, more vague, or more powerful; yet capricious as it is, it is nevertheless much more often true, reasonable, and just, than we imagine.

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Mankind are in the end always governed by superiority of intellectual faculties, and none are more sensible of this than the military profession. When, on my return from Italy, I assumed the dress of the Institute, and associated with men of science, I knew what I was doing: I was sure of not being misunderstood by the lowest drummer boy in the army.

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