Napoléon Bonaparte

“Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.”

“A revolution is an idea, taken up by bayonets.”

“The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain.”

“The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance.”

“A woman laughing is a woman conquered.”

“Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.”

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

“In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them.”

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

“Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.”

“Imagination governs the world.”

“To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.”

“Always carry champagne! In victory You deserve it & in defeat You need it!”

“The surest way to remain poor is to be honest.”

“History is written by the winners.”

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

“There are two levers for moving man -- interest and fear.”