Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
I made all my generals out of mud.
Medicines are only fit for old people.
The French complain of everything, and always.
A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
I have only one counsel for you - be master.
Let the path be open to talent.
We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
A Constitution should be short and obscure.
A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.
England is a nation of shopkeepers.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
I often asked Laplace what he thought of God. He owned that he was an atheist.
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.
A revolution is an idea, taken up by bayonets.
Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.
Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded his empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for him.
Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.
