Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
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I have seen only yoU, I have admired only yoU, I desire only You.
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There are so many laws that no one is safe from hanging.
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Cavalry is useful before, during, and after the battle.
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The best generals are those who have served in the artillery.
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You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.
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The mind of a general ought to resemble and be as clear as the field-glass of a telescope.
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The world soffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people. But because of the silence of the good people.
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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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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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The first quality of the commander-in-chief is a cool head to receive a correct impression of things. He should not allow himself to be confused by either good or bad news.
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When you have resolved to fight a battle, collect your whole force. Dispense with nothing. A single battalion sometimes decides the day.
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The worse the man the better the soldier. If soldiers be not corrupt they ought to be made so.
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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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One must learn to forgive and not to hold a hostile, bitter attitude of mind, which offends those about us and prevents us from enjoying ourselves. One must recognize human shortcomings and adjust himself to them rather than to be constantly finding fault with them.
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The bullet that will kill me is not yet cast.
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The allies we gain by victory will turn against us upon the bare whisper of our defeat.
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I have so often been mistaken that I no longer blush for it.
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Policemen and prisons ought never to be the means used to bring men back to the practice of religion.
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The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain.
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The bayonet has always been the weapon of the brave and the chief tool of victory.
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When people cease to complain, they cease to think.
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Destiny urges me to a goal of which I am ignorant. Until that goal is attained I am invulnerable, unassailable. When Destiny has accomplished her purpose in me, a fly may suffice to destroy me.
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A fool is only troublesome, a pedant insupportable.
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The unwilling soldier will do anything to fight for a useless fabric piece of ribbon.