Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
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Washington is dead! This great man fought against Tyranny; he established the liberty of his country. His memory will always be dear to the French people, as it will be to all free men of the two worlds; and especially to French soldiers, who, like him and the American soldiers, have combated for liberty and equality.
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Neglect of duty does not cease, by repetition, to be neglect of duty.
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That man made me miss my destiny.
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I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.
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I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.
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Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.
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As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life.
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Every beggar shall be arrested. But to arrest a beggar merely in order to put him in jail would be barbarous and absurd. He should be arrested for the sole purpose of teaching him how to earn a living by his work.
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Take a dose of medicine once, and in all probability you will be obliged to take an additional hundred afterwards.
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In war, moral factors acount for three quarters of the whole; relative material strength accounts for only one quarter.
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In a conquered country benevolence is not humanitarianism. It is a general political axiom that a conqueror must not inspire a good opinion of his benevolence until he has demonstrated that he can be severe with malefactors.
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The only conquests that are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves.
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In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.
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The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.
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Kiss the feet of Popes provided their hands are tied.
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I don't employ Talleyrand when I want a thing done, but only when I want to have the appearance of wanting to do it.
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I marvel that whereas the ambitious dreams of my self, Caesar, and Alexander should have vanished into thin air, a Judean peasant-Jesus-s hould be able to stretch His hands across the centuries and control the destinies of men and nations.
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The best way to make every one poor is to insist on equality of wealth.
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No one but myself can be blamed for my fall. I have been my own greatest enemy-the cause of my own disastrous fate.
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We are nothing but by the law.
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It is only by prudence, wisdom, and dexterity that great ends are attained and obstacles overcome. Without these qualities nothing succeeds.
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I have destroyed the enemy merely by marches.
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It is in times of difficulty that great nations like great men display the whole energy of their character and become an object of admiration to posterity.
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The most dangerous moment comes with victory.