Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
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It is not enough to give orders they must be obeyed.
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I have so often been mistaken that I no longer blush for it.
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The true wealth of a state consists in the number of its inhabitants, in their toil and industry.
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There is no man more pusillanimous than I when I am planning a campaign. I purposely exaggerate all the dangers and all the calamities that the circumstances make possible. I am in a thoroughly painful state of agitation. This does not keep me from looking quite serene in front of my entourage; I am like an unmarried girl laboring with child. Once I have made up my mind, everything is forgotten except what leads to success.
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Man, not men, is the most important consideration.
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The Concordat is not the victory of any one party but the consolidation of all.
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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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Paradise is a center whither the souls of all men are proceeding, each sect in its particular road.
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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 battle sometimes decides everything; and sometimes the most trifling thing decides the fate of a battle.
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It's the people who are in the wrong who get angry.
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Act swiftly and vigorously, without 'buts' and 'ifs'.
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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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Reconnaissance memoranda should always be written in the simplest style and be purely descriptive. They should never stray from their objective by introducing extraneous ideas.
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Christ alone has succeeded in so raising the mind of man toward the unseen, that it becomes insensible to the barriers of time and space.
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A leader has the right to be beaten, but never the right to be surprised.
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When you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna.
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Good and decent people must be protected and persuaded by gentle means, but the rabble must be led by terror.
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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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You cannot treat with all the world at once.
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A good sketch is better than a long speech.
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The laws of circumstance are abolished by new circumstances.
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War is not at all such a difficult art as people think. . . . In reality it would seem that he is vanquished who is afraid of his adversary and the the whole secret lies in that.
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A mathematician of the first rank, Laplace quickly revealed himself as only a mediocre administrator; from his first work we saw that we had been deceived. Laplace saw no question from its true point of view; he sought subtleties everywhere; had only doubtful ideas, and finally carried the spirit of the infinitely small into administration.