Quotes by : Napoléon Bonaparte

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering....

Men of great ambition have sought happiness . . . and have found fame.

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

As for moral courage, it is very rare, he said, to find that kind found at 2 o'clock in the morning;....

To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary....

A revolution is an idea, taken up by bayonets.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

Music is what tell us that the human race is greater than we realize.

I often asked Laplace what he thought of God. He owned that he was an atheist.