Napoleon Quotes

The military principles of Caesar were those of Hannibal, and those of Hannibal were those of Alexander — to hold his forces in hand, not to be vulnerable at any point, to throw all his forces with rapidity on any given point.

It is often in the audacity, in the steadfastness, of the general that the safety and the conservation of his men is found.

Unhappy the general who comes on the field of battle with a system.

Our credulity is a part of the imperfection of our natures. It is inherent in us to desire to generalize, when we ought, on the contrary, to guard ourselves very carefully from this tendency.

Man loves the marvelous. It has an irresistible charm for him. He is always ready to leave that with which he is familiar to pursue vain inventions. He lends himself to his own deception.

I do not see in religion the mystery of the incarnation so much as the mystery of the social order. It introduces into the thought of heaven an idea of equalization, which saves the rich from being massacred by the poor.

The populace judges of the power of God by the power of the priests.

You cannot drag a man's conscience before any tribunal, and no one is answerable for his religious opinions to any power on earth.

Policemen and prisons ought never to be the means used to bring men back to the practice of religion.

Fanaticism must be put to sleep before it can be eradicated.

Conscience is the most sacred thing among men. Every man has within him a still small voice, which tells him that nothing on earth can oblige him to believe that which he does not believe. The worst of all tyrannies is that which obliges eighteen-twentieths of a nation to embrace a religion contrary to their beliefs, under penalty of being denied their rights as citizens and of owning property, which, in effect, is the same thing as being without a country.

The religious zeal which animates priests, leads them to undertake labors and to brave perils which would be far beyond the powers of one in secular employment.

Charity and alms are recommended in every chapter of the Koran as being the most acceptable services, both to God and the Prophet.

Jesus Christ was the greatest republican.

The existence of God is attested by everything that appeals to our imagination. And if our eye cannot reach Him it is because He has not permitted our intelligence to go so far.