Quotes By Napoleon Bonaparte

The army is the true nobility of our country.

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

Let the path be open to talent.

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.

One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

England is a nation of shopkeepers.

I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

Imagination rules the world.

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.

War is the business of barbarians.

When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

I made all my generals out of mud.

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.

A true man hates no one.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.