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A leader is a dealer in hope.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
One bad general is worth two good ones.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Men are led by trifles.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
In a great nation, the majority are incapable of judging wisely of things.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Passionate people invariably deny their anger, and cowards often boast their ignorance of fear.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
The sovereignty of the people is inalienable.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Mankind's worst enemy is fear of work
— Napoleon Bonaparte
The life of a citizen is the property of his country.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
The populace judges of the power of God by the power of the priests.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Revolutions are like the most noxious dungheaps, which bring into life the noblest vegetables.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
I once read that there are more biographical works about Napoleon Bonaparte than any other man in history.
— Michael Dirda
Amy wondered if Bonaparte could declare war on Miss Gwen alone without breaking his peace with England
— Lauren Willig
Great men are meteors, consuming themselves to light the world
— Napoleon Bonaparte
It is astonishing what power words have over men.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Power is what they like - it is the greatest of all aphrodisiacs.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Unavailable wars are always just.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
The policies of all powers are inherent in their geography.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
An army travels on its stomach. Soup makes the soldier.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Better live a King, than a Prince.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Bloodletting is among the ingredients of political medicine.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Passions change, politics are immutable.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
I am the signet which marks the page where the revolution has been stopped; but when I die it will turn the page and resume its course.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
France has more need of me than I have need of France.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Wherever wood can swim, there I am sure to find this flag of England.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Friends must always be treated as if one day they might be enemies.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
If you wage war, do it energetically and with severity. This is the only way to make it shorter and consequently less inhuman.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
A victorious general must know how to employ severity, justness, and mildness by turns, if he would allay sedition or prevent it.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
To a father who loves his children victor has no charms. When the heart speaks, glory itself is an illusion.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Brave deeds are the monuments of brave men.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
The future destiny of a child is always the work of the mother.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Speeches pass away, but acts remain.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Sirs, if it were not for that one red spot I would have conquered the world!!!
— Napoleon Bonaparte
An Emperor confides in national soldiers, not in mercenaries.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
A leader has the right to be beaten, but never the right to be surprised.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Morality has nothing to do with such a man as I am.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
The heart may be broken, and the soul remain unshaken.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Hereditary succession to the magistracy is absurd, as it tends to make a property of it; it is incompatible with the sovereignty of the people.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
America is a fortunate country. She grows by the follies of our European nations.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Which is heavier: a soldier's pack or a slave's chains?
— Napoleon Bonaparte
The Turks can be killed, but they can never be conquered.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
The best generals are those who have served in the artillery.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Not one cent should be raised unless it is in accord with the law.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
A fool is only troublesome, a pedant insupportable.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
The transition from the defensive to the offensive is one of the most delicate operations in war.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
On victory, you deserve beer. On defeat, you need it.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
There is a joy in danger.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Knowledge and history are the enemies of religion.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
When I was happy I thought I knew men, but it was fated that I should know them in misfortune only.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Society is impossible without inequality, inequality intolerable without a code of morality, and a code of morality unacceptable without religion.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
If I wanted to do wrong, I could not.
— Louis Bonaparte
The purely defensive is doomed to defeat.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
The surest way to remain poor is to be honest.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
The amateurs discuss tactics: the professionals discuss logistics
— Napoleon Bonaparte
In war, as in love, we must come into contact before we triumph.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
The fate of war is to be exalted in the morning, and low enough at night! There is but one step from triumph to ruin.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
In order that a people may be free, it is necessary that the governed be sages, and those who govern, gods.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
War is the business of barbarians.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
The public spirit is in the hands of the man who knows how to make use of it.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
You do not get peace by shouting: Peace. Peace is a meaningless word; what we need is a glorious peace.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Morality for the upper classes, the gallows for the rabbles.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
In the last analysis, one must be a military man in order to govern. It is only with boot and spurs that one can govern a horse.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Men of great ambition have sought happiness . . . and have found fame.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
A general-in-chief should ask himself several times in the day, What if the enemy were to appear now in my front, or on my right, or my left?
— Napoleon Bonaparte
The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Better to have a known enemy than a forced ally.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Give me enough medals and I'll win you any war
— Napoleon Bonaparte
I make my battle plans from the spirit of my sleeping soldiers
— Napoleon Bonaparte
We walk faster when we walk alone.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Impossible is in the dictionary of fools
— Napoleon Bonaparte
History is a myth that men agree to believe.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Men grow old quickly on the battlefield.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Obedience to public authority ought not to be based either on ignorance or stupidity.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Patriotism is a word which represents a noble idea.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Between a battle lost and a battle won, the distance is immense and there stand empires.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
When your enemy is doing something wrong, do not interrupt him.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
God has decreed that there be sick and poor in this world, but in the next it will be the other way around.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
It is the success which makes great men.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Liberty and equality are magical words.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
An urgent missive sent to Josephine Home in three days. Don't wash.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Rascality has limits; stupidity has not.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Sire, I am my own Rudolph of Hapsburg.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
The heart of a statesman should be in his head.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Every French soldier carriers a marshal's baton in his knapsack.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Artillery is more essential to cavalry than to infantry, because cavalry has no fire for its defence, but depends on the sabre.
— Napoleon Bonaparte