Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
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The more I study the world, the more I am convinced of the inability of brute force to create anything durable.
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Leaders deal in hope.
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I have seen only yoU, I have admired only yoU, I desire only You.
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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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There is only one favorable moment in war; talent consists in knowing how to seize it.
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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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Since the discovery of printing, knowledge has been called to power, and power has been used to make knowledge a slave.
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He, who practices right, but in the hope of acquiring great renown, is very near to vice.
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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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There are so many laws that no one is safe from hanging.
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In war you see your own troubles; those of the enemy you cannot see. You must show confidence.
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Do you wish to find out the really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.
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Europe thus divided into nationalities freely formed and free internally, peace between States would have become easier: the United States of Europe would become a possibility.
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The practice of law sharpens the mind by making it narrow.
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It is the success which makes great men.
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I have so often been mistaken that I no longer blush for it.
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Sometimes a single battle decides everything and sometimes, too, the slightest circumstance decides the issue of a battle. There is a moment in every battle at which the least manoeuvre is decisive and gives superiority, as one drop of water causes overflow.
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The fate of a battle is the result of a moment, of a thought: the hostile forces advance with various combinations, they attack each other and fight for a certain time; the critical moment arrives, a mental flash decides, and the least reserve accomplishes the object.
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Leave the Artillerymen alone, they are an obstinate lot.
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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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A people that is able to say everything, becomes able to do everything. The crowd which follows me with admiration, would run with the same eagerness were I marching to the Guillotine.
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Providence is always on the side of the last reserve.
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The affairs of war, like the destiny of battles, as well as empires, hang upon a spiders thread.
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Age, habits of business and experience have modified many characters.