Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
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Against attempts on my life, I trust in my luck, my good genius, and my guards.
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I may have had many projects, but I never was free to carry out any of them.
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War is cruel to the people, and terrible to the conquered.
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The heart may be broken, and the soul remain unshaken.
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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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They wanted me to be a Washington.
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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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Laws which are consistent in theory often prove chaotic in practice.
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The most insupportable of tyrannies is that of inferiors.
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The barbarous custom of having men beaten who are suspected of having important secrets to reveal must be abolished. It has always been recognized that this way of interrogating men, by putting them to torture, produces nothing worthwhile.
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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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The populace judges of the power of God by the power of the priests.
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All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some added opportunity; the less clever man, by neglecting one thing, sometimes misses everything.
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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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A man who has no consideration for the needs of his men ought never to be given command.
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In statesmanship there are predicaments from which it is impossible to escape without some wrongdoing.
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Good infantry is without doubt the sinews of an army; but if it has to fight a long time against very superior artillery, it will become demoralized and will be destroyed.
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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 poor man commands respect; the beggar must always excite anger.
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I have doubtless erred more or less in politics, but a crime I never committed.
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Do you wish to find out the really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.
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The most difficult art is not in the choice of men, but in giving to the men chosen the highest service of which they are capable.
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I love a brave soldier who has undergone the baptism of fire.
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No amount of money will induce someone to lay down their life, but they will gladly do so for a bit of yellow ribbon.