If I were to give liberty to the press, my power could not last three days. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Give me an educated mother, I shall promise you the birth of a civilized, educated nation — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
A soul you say? Give my pocketwatch to a savage and he'll think it has a soul. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Give me enough ribbons to place on the tunics of my soldiers and I can conquer the world. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Until then, mio dolce amor, a thousand kisses; but give me none in return, for they set my blood on fire. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Strong coffee, much strong coffee, is what awakens me. Coffee gives me warmth, waking, an unusual force and a pain that is… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Democracy, if it is reasonable, limits itself to giving everyone an equal opportunity to compete and to obtain. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions, and it is that to which the legislator ought… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The most difficult art is not in the choice of men, but in giving to the men chosen the highest service of… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Give me a man with a good allowance of nose,... when I want any good head-work done I choose a man -… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Sometimes a single battle decides everything and sometimes, too, the slightest circumstance decides the issue of a battle. There is a moment… — 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
