Napoleon Bonaparte

The gospel is not a book; it is a living being, with an action, a power, which invades every thing that opposes its extension, behold! It is upon this table: This book, surpassing all others. I never omit to read it, and every day with some pleasure.

Champagne! In victory, one deserves it; in defeat one needs it.

In war, the moral is to the physical as three is to one.

The first quality of a soldier is constancy in enduring fatigue and hardship. Courage is only the second. Poverty privation and want are the school of the good soldier.

The fool has one great advantage over a man of sense; he is always satisfied with himself.

Anarchy is the stepping stone to absolute power.

Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it.

All becomes easy when we follow the current of opinion; it is the ruler of the world.

It is in times of difficulty that great nations like great men display the whole energy of their character and become an object of admiration to posterity.

Rashness succeeds often, still more often fails.

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

In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them.

Cavalry is useful before, during, and after the battle.

The best way to make every one poor is to insist on equality of wealth.

The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a power that conquers all that oppose it.

Put a rogue in the limelight and he will act like an honest man.

I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets.

I know he's a good general, but is he lucky?

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

Impossible is the word found only in a fool's dictionary. Wise people create opportunities for themselves and make everything possible.

Nothing is lost as long as courage remains