Quotes from Napoleon Bonaparte

Oh Man, Man. How despicable in slavery, how great when fired with the love of freedom!

It is the success which makes great men.

Men grow old quickly on the battlefield.

Men will risk their lives, even die for ribbons.

God! How men of letters are stupid.

All men of genius, and all those who have gained rank in the republic of letters, are brothers, whatever may be the land of their nativity.

In a narrow sphere great men are blunderers.

How many seemingly impossible things have been accomplished by resolute men because they had to do, or die?

In war it is not men, but the man who counts.

The great art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs.

Morality has nothing to do with such a man as I am.

I have come to realise that men are not born to be free.

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.

Men, in general, are but great children.

Men are lead by trifles.

Parties weaken themselves by their fear of capable men.

The law, that is what makes men stay honest.

A man occupied with public or other important business cannot, and need not, attend to spelling.

History is a myth that men agree to believe.

Paradise is a center whither the souls of all men are proceeding, each sect in its particular road.

Policemen and prisons ought never to be the means used to bring men back to the practice of religion.

A nation recruits men more easily than it can retrieve its honour.

Man is entitled by birthright to a share of the earth's produce sufficient to fill the needs of his existence.

When defending itself against another country, a nation never lacks men, but too often, soldiers.