Quotes from Napoleon Bonaparte

Men take only their needs into consideration never their abilities.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

England is a nation of shopkeepers.

My business is to succeed, and I'm good at it. I create my Iliad by my actions, create it day by day.

Age, habits of business and experience have modified many characters.

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

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 celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.

Reconnaissance memoranda should always be written in the simplest style and be purely descriptive. They should never stray from their objective by introducing extraneous ideas.

Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.

Nothing is lost as long as courage remains

With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

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

With audacity one can undertake anything.

Oh well, no matter what happens, there's always death.

The Emperor died forsaken by all, on this horrible rock. (St. Helena) His death struggle was awful!

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.

Whatever you ardently and passionately desire, that you obtain.

Our credulity is a part of the imperfection of our natures. It is inherent in us to desire to generalize, when we ought, on the contrary, to guard ourselves very carefully from this tendency.

I have seen only yoU, I have admired only yoU, I desire only You

A journalist is a grumbler, a censurer, a giver of advice, a regent of sovereigns, a tutor of nations. Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

The best way to make every one poor is to insist on equality of wealth.