Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Revolutions are like the most noxious dungheaps, which bring into life the noblest vegetables. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
In time of revolution, with perseverance and courage, a soldier should think nothing impossible. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
This year has begun hopefully for right thinkers. After all these centuries of feudal barbarism and political slavery, it is surprising to… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Prison, blood, death, create enthusiasts and martyrs, and bring forth courage and desperate resolution. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Posterity will talk of Washington as the founder of a great empire, when my name shall be lost in the vortex of… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Europe is a molehill. All great empires and revolutions have been on the Orient; six hundred millions live there. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest. All great revolutions originate in fear, for the play of… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
In revolution there are only two sorts of men, those who cause them and those who profit by them. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I closed the gulf of anarchy and brought order out of chaos. I rewarded merit regardless of birth or wealth, wherever I… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
If I were an Englishman, I should esteem the man who advised a war with China to be the greatest living enemy… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
After me, the Revolution - or, rather the ideas which formed it - will resume their course. It will be like a… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Muhammad was a prince; he rallied his compatriots around him. In a few years, the Muslims conquered half of the world. They… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“War is becoming an anachronism; if we have battled in every part of the continent it was because two opposing social orders… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I am the signet which marks the page where the revolution has been stopped; but when I die it will turn the… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
If obedience is the result of the instinct of the masses, revolt is the result of their thought. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share
When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share
All becomes easy when we follow the current of opinion; it is the ruler of the world. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share
A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations, all fall,… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share
Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share
My decision to destroy the authority of the blacks in Saint Domingue (Haiti) is not so much based on considerations of commerce and money,… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share
There is only one favorable moment in war; talent consists in knowing how to seize it. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share
A great reserve and severity of manners are necessary for the command of those who are older than ourselves. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share
