"History is a myth that men agree..." - Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte

“He that makes war without many mistakes has not made war very long.”

“In order not to be astonished at obtaining victories, one ought not to think only of defeats.”

“It is easier to brave and threaten, than to conquer an enemy.”

“American history is not something dead and over. It is always alive,always growing, always unfinished.”

“I am reminded by my journey how exceedingly new this country still is. You have only to travel for a few days into the interior and back parts even of many of the old States, to come to that very America which the Northmen, and Cabot, and Gosnold, and Smith, and Raleigh visited.”

“I cannot make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization.”

“To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images.”

“Philosophers, for example, often fail to recognize that their remarks about the universe apply also to themselves and their remarks. If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so.”

“Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.”