Revolution Quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte

Revolutions are good times for soldiers of talent and courage.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Revolutions are like the most noxious dungheaps, which bring into life the noblest vegetables.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Variety made the Revolution. Liberty was just a pretext.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

In revolution there are only two sorts of men, those who cause them and those who profit by them.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I am the signet which marks the page where the revolution has been stopped; but when I die it will turn the…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

If obedience is the result of the instinct of the masses, revolt is the result of their thought.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

In time of revolution, with perseverance and courage, a soldier should think nothing impossible.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

This year has begun hopefully for right thinkers. After all these centuries of feudal barbarism and political slavery, it is surprising to…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Prison, blood, death, create enthusiasts and martyrs, and bring forth courage and desperate resolution.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Posterity will talk of Washington as the founder of a great empire, when my name shall be lost in the vortex of…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

After me, the Revolution - or, rather the ideas which formed it - will resume their course. It will be like a…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I closed the gulf of anarchy and brought order out of chaos. I rewarded merit regardless of birth or wealth, wherever I…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

If I were an Englishman, I should esteem the man who advised a war with China to be the greatest living enemy…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Muhammad was a prince; he rallied his compatriots around him. In a few years, the Muslims conquered half of the world. They…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“War is becoming an anachronism; if we have battled in every part of the continent it was because two opposing social orders…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest. All great revolutions originate in fear, for the play of…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Europe is a molehill. All great empires and revolutions have been on the Orient; six hundred millions live there.

— Napoleon Bonaparte