The fate of a Nation may sometimes depend upon the position of a fortress. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as an accident, only a failure to recognise the hand of fate — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
A battle sometimes decides everything; and sometimes the most trifling thing decides the fate of a battle. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Our hour is marked, and no one can claim a moment of life beyond what fate has predestined. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The fate of war is to be exalted in the morning, and low enough at night! There is but one step from… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
If the art of war were nothing but the art of avoiding risks, glory would become the prey of mediocre minds.... I… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“no one but myself can be blamed for my fall. I have been my own greatest enemy-the cause of my own disastrous… — Napoléon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The fate of a battle is the result of a moment, of a thought: the hostile forces advance with various combinations, they… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
All becomes easy when we follow the current of opinion; it is the ruler of the world. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
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 Image
Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
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 Image