13 Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes on History

Napoleon Bonaparte quotes on history

3. From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.

5. A form of government that is not the result of a long sequence of shared experiences, efforts, and endeavors can never take root.

17. Women are nothing but machines for producing children.

20. 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.

23. 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.

31. What then is, generally speaking, the truth of history ? A fable agreed upon.

65. Ces terribles chevaux gris! Comme ils travaillent!

78. Female virtue has been held in suspicion from the beginning of the world, and ever will be.

124. It would have been better for the peace of France if this man had never existed.

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

172. The revolution is over. I am the Revolution

180. 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.

191. 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.