Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
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The bullet that will kill me is not yet cast.
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Treaties are observed as long as they are in harmony with interests.
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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 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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God has decreed that there be sick and poor in this world, but in the next it will be the other way around.
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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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In war, the general alone can judge of certain arrangements. It depends on him alone to conquer difficulties by his own superior talents and resolution.
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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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Agriculture is the soul and chief support of empires; industry produces riches and the happiness of the people; exportation represents the superabundance, and good use of both.
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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 mind of a general ought to resemble and be as clear as the field-glass of a telescope.
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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 bayonet has always been the weapon of the brave and the chief tool of victory.
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A great Nation should have a fixed Government, so that the death of one man should not overturn it.
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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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Across a chasm of eighteen hundred years, Jesus Christ makes a demand which is beyond all others difficult to satisfy; He asks for that which a philosopher may often seek in vain at the hands of his friends, or a father of his children, or a bride of her spouse, or a man of his brother. He asks for the human heart; He will have it entirely to Himself. He demands it unconditionally; and forthwith His demand is granted. Wonderful!
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Men have their virtues and their vices, their heroisms and their perversities; men are neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but possess and practice all that there is of good and bad here below. Such is the general rule. Temperament, education, the accidents of life, are modifying factors. Outside of this, everything is ordered arrangement, everything is chance. Such has been my rule of expectation and it has usually brought me success.
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When people cease to complain, they cease to think.
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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.
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You don't govern men who don't have religion, you shoot them.
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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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A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations, all fall, but the noise remains, and will reach to other generations.