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Napoleon Bonaparte quotes - page 12
Where do you think you are going? Can't you see that the battle is won? Come on, stand firm!
Napoleon Bonaparte
The Princes of this house of abandoned their capital. Not like soldiers of Honor who cede to the circumstances and set backs of the war, but like the perjured, who are persued by their own remorse.
Napoleon Bonaparte
My maxim was, la carrière est ouverte aux talents, without distinction of birth or fortune.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The people must not be counted upon; they cry indifferently : "Long live the King!" and "Long live the Conspirators!" a proper direction must be given to them, and proper instruments employed to effect it.
Napoleon Bonaparte
If you make everything difficult, the really hard things seem less so.
Napoleon Bonaparte
A congress of the powers is deceit agreed on between diplomats - it is the pen of Machiavelli combined with the scimitar of Mahomet.
Napoleon Bonaparte
What are we? What is the future? What is the past? What magic fluid envelops us and hides from us the things it is most important for us to know? We are born, we live, and we die in the midst of the marvelous.
Napoleon Bonaparte
There is nothing so imperious as feebleness which feels itself supported by force.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The truth is that one ought to serve his people worthily, and not strive solely to please them. The best way to gain a people is to do that which is best for them. Nothing is more dangerous than to flatter a people. If it does not get what it wants immediately, it is irritated and thinks that promises have not been kept; and if then it is resisted, it hates so much the more as it feels itself deceived.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Aristocracy is the spirit of the Old Testament, democracy of the New.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The existence of God is attested by everything that appeals to our imagination. And if our eye cannot reach Him it is because He has not permitted our intelligence to go so far.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Jesus Christ was the greatest republican.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The religious zeal which animates priests, leads them to undertake labors and to brave perils which would be far beyond the powers of one in secular employment.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The art of war consists in being always able, even with an inferior army, to have stronger forces than the enemy at the point of attack or the point which is attacked.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The praises of enemies are always to be suspected. A man of honor will not permit himself to be flattered by them, except when they are given after the cessation of hostilities.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Policy and morals concur in repressing pillage.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Gentleness, good treatment, honor the victor and dishonor the vanquished, who should remain aloof and owe nothing to pity - In war, audacity is the finest calculation of genius.
Napoleon Bonaparte
In civil war it is not given to every man to know how to conduct himself. There is something more than military prudence necessary; there is need of sagacity and the knowledge of men.
Napoleon Bonaparte
That dependable courage, which in spite of the most sudden circumstances, nevertheless allows freedom of mind, of judgment and of decision, is exceedingly rare.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The general of the sea has need of only one science, that of navigation. The one on land has need of all, or of a talent which is the equivalent of all, that will enable him to profit by all experience, and all knowledge. A general of the sea has nothing to divine. He knows where his enemy is, he knows his strength. A general on land never knows anything with certainty, never sees his enemy well, and never knows positively where he is.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Europe is a molehill. It has never had any great empires, like those of the Orient, numbering six hundred million souls.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Europe has its history, often tragic, though at intervals consoling. But to speak of any universally recognized national rights or that these rights have played any part in its history, is to play with the powers of public credulity. Always the first duty of a state has been its safety; the pledge of its safety, its power; and the limits of its power, that intelligence of which each has been made the depository. When the great powers have proclaimed any other principle, it has been only for their own purposes, and the smaller powers have never received any benefit from it.
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