Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes on History
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From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
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A form of government that is not the result of a long sequence of shared experiences, efforts, and endeavors can never take root.
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Women are nothing but machines for producing children.
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Muhammad was a great man, fearless soldier; with a handful of men he triumphed at the battle of Badr, great captain, eloquent, a great man of state, it regenerated his homeland, and created in the middle of the deserts of Arabia a new people and a new power.
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Waterloo will wipe out the memory of my forty victories; but that which nothing can wipe out is my Civil Code. That will live forever.
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What then is, generally speaking, the truth of history ? A fable agreed upon.
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Ces terribles chevaux gris! Comme ils travaillent!
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Female virtue has been held in suspicion from the beginning of the world, and ever will be.
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It would have been better for the peace of France if this man had never existed.
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Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
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The revolution is over. I am the Revolution
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There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.
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To write history, one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary should be free from all pre-occupation of interest or of vanity.