Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
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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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Obedience to public authority ought not to be based either on ignorance or stupidity.
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Nothing is more destructive than the charge of artillery on a crowd.
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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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Suicide is a crime the most revolting to the feelings; nor does any reason suggest itself to our understanding by which it can be justified. It certainly originates in that species of fear which we denominate poltroonery. For what claim can that man have to courage who trembles at the frowns of fortunes? True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life in whatever shape they may challenge him to combat.
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Ordinary men died, men of iron were taken prisoner: I only brought back with me men of bronze.
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The nature of Christ is, I grant it, from one end to another, a web of mysteries; but this mysteriousness does not correspond to the difficulties which all existence contains. Let it be rejected, and the whole world is an enigma; let it be accepted, and we possess a wonderful explanation of the history of man.
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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.
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Love is the idler's occupation, the warrior's relaxation, and the sovereign's ruination.
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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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It's the people who are in the wrong who get angry.
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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.
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The admiral needs only one science, that of navigation. The general needs all the sciences.
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A journalist is a grumbler, a censurer, a giver of advice, a regent of sovereigns, a tutor of nations.
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Malice delights to blacken the characters of prominent men.
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The only victory over love is flight.
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Man will believe anything, as long as it's not in the bible.
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Generals are not to be too scrupulous.
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There are two levers for moving men - interest and fear.
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Public morals are natural complement of all laws they are by themselves an entire code.
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The best generals are those who have served in the artillery.
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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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Each state claims the right to control interests foreign to itself when those interests are such that it can control them without putting its own interests in danger. ... other powers only recognize this right of intervening in proportion as the country doing it has the power to do it.
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The laws of circumstance are abolished by new circumstances.