Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
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Tis a principle of war that when you can use the lightning, 'tis better than cannon.
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Between a battle lost and a battle won, the distance is immense and there stand empires.
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I cannot approve of your method of operation, you proceed like a bewildered idiot, taking not the least notice of my orders.
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Those who failed to oppose me, who readily agreed with me, accepted all my views, and yielded easily to my opinions, were those who did me the most injury, and were my worst enemies, because, by surrendering to me so easily, they encouraged me to go too far... I was then too powerful for any man, except myself, to injure me.
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A man is known by his conduct to his wife, to his family, and to those under him.
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The division of labor, which has brought such perfection in mechanical industries, is altogether fatal when applied to productions of the mind. All work of the mind is superior in proportion as the mind that produces it is universal.
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High politic is only common sense applied to great things.
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Nothing renders a nation so despicable as religious despotism.
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To a father who loves his children victor has no charms. When the heart speaks, glory itself is an illusion.
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Democracy may become frenzied, but it has feelings and can be moved. As for aristocracy, it is always cold and never forgives.
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Never lose sight of this maxim, that you should establish your cantonments at the most distant and best protected point from the enemy, especially where a surprise is possible. By this means you will have time to unite all your forces before he can attack you.
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While I live I will never resort to irredeemable paper.
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The best medicine against the grapes of wrath is a whiff of grapeshot.
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It is an ambassador's duty to stand up for his nation's foreign policy in any era and under any government whatsoever. Ambassadors are, in the full meaning of the term, titled spies.
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The merit of Mahomet is that he founded a religion without an inferno.
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Give me enough ribbons to place on the tunics of my soldiers and I can conquer the world.
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I don't employ Talleyrand when I want a thing done, but only when I want to have the appearance of wanting to do it.
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Jesus Christ was more than man.
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We are made weak both by idleness and distrust of ourselves. Unfortunate, indeed, is he who suffers from both. If he is a mere individual he becomes nothing; if he is a king he is lost.
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The fate of a Nation may sometimes depend upon the position of a fortress.
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The greatest danger occurs at the moment of victory.
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It would be a joke if the conduct of the victor had to be justified to the vanquished.
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Men soon get tired of shedding their blood for the advantage of a few individuals, who think they amply reward the soldiers perils with the treasures they amass.
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Muhammad was a prince; he rallied his compatriots around him. In a few years, the Muslims conquered half of the world. They plucked more souls from false gods, knocked down more idols, razed more pagan temples in fifteen years than the followers of Moses and Jesus did in fifteen centuries. Muhammad was a great man. He would indeed have been a god, if the revolution that he had performed had not been prepared by the circumstances.