Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
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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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The worse the man the better the soldier. If soldiers be not corrupt they ought to be made so.
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Alexander, Charlemagne and myself all tried to found an empire on force and we failed. Jesus Christ is building an empire on love, and today there are millions of people who would gladly die for His sake.
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Artillery is more essential to cavalry than to infantry, because cavalry has no fire for its defence, but depends on the sabre.
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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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I have doubtless erred more or less in politics, but a crime I never committed.
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In these days the invention of printing, and the diffusion of knowledge, render historical calumnies a little less dangerous: truth will always prevail in the long run, but how slow its progress!
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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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A fool is only troublesome, a pedant insupportable.
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You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.
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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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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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All the great captains have performed vast achievements by conforming with the rules of art--by adjusting efforts to obstacles.
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A cowardly act! What do I care about that? You may be sure that I should never fear to commit one if it were to my advantage.
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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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Man loves the marvelous. It has an irresistible charm for him. He is always ready to leave that with which he is familiar to pursue vain inventions. He lends himself to his own deception.
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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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I have seen only yoU, I have admired only yoU, I desire only You.
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Providence is always on the side of the last reserve.
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When people cease to complain, they cease to think.
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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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It is easy to know when a government wishes for peace by observing the character of the person sent to negotiate for it.
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You don't govern men who don't have religion, you shoot them.
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Policemen and prisons ought never to be the means used to bring men back to the practice of religion.