Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
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For today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created, for the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideology. Where each worker may bloom secure from the pests of contradictory and confusing truths. Our Unification of Thought is more powerful a weapon than any fleet or army on earth. We are one people. With one will. One resolve. One cause. Our enemies shall talk themselves to death. And we will bury them with their own confusion. We shall prevail!
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Men are never attached to you by favours.
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Power is founded upon opinion.
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Men are ruled by toys.
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It is rare that a legislature reasons. It is too quickly impassioned.
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Everything is more or less organized matter. To think so is against religion, but I think so just the same.
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A victorious general must know how to employ severity, justness, and mildness by turns, if he would allay sedition or prevent it.
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Leaders deal in hope.
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A society without religion is like a vessel without compass.
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Public esteem is the recompense of honest men.
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Nothing is so contrary to military rules as to make the strength of your army known, either in the orders of the day, in proclamations, or in the newspapers.
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Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. To become a good man, one must have faithful friends, or outright enemies.
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Vengeance is without foresight.
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If you (to General Bertrand) do not perceive that Jesus Christ is God, very well; then I did wrong to make you a general.
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A legislator must know how to take advantage of even the defects of those he wants to govern. The art consists in making others work rather than in wearing oneself out.
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Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man.
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There are certain things in war of which the commander alone comprehends the importance. Nothing but his superior firmness and ability can subdue and surmount all difficulties.
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Treaties are observed as long as they are in harmony with interests.
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I have noticed in every campaign that I have fought-that there is a key segment of time, somewhere between 13 and 15 minutes in which the battle is won or lost. I focus on that segment of time, and I win.
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All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some added opportunity; the less clever man, by neglecting one thing, sometimes misses everything.
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Public morals are natural complement of all laws they are by themselves an entire code.
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If you want to get on in this world make many promises, but don't keep them.
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What is the future? What is the past? What are we? What is the magic fluid that surrounds us and conceals the things we most need to know? We live and die in the midst of marvels.
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It is only with prudence, sagacity, and much dexterity that great aims are accomplished, and all obstacles surmounted. Otherwise nothing is accomplished.