Reconnaissance memoranda should always be written in the simplest style and be purely descriptive. They should never stray from their objective by… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Lead the ideas of your time and they will accompany and support you; fall behind them and they drag you along with… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Machiavelli is right: one always must live with one's friends with the idea that they may turn into one's enemies. He should… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
What are the conditions that make for the superiority of an army? Its internal organization, military habits in officers and men, the… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
For my part, it is not the mystery of the incarnation which I discover in religion, but the mystery of social order,… — 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
A mathematician of the first rank, Laplace quickly revealed himself as only a mediocre administrator; from his first work we saw that… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The Bible is not merely a book-it is a living power. . . . Nowhere as in the Bible can be found… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
What I have done up to this is nothing. I am only at the beginning of the course I must run. Do… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Among so many conflicting ideas and so many different perspectives, the honest man is confused and distressed and the skeptic becomes wicked… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Arabia was idolatrous when, six centuries after Jesus, Muhammad introduced the worship of the God of Abraham, of Ishmael, of Moses, and… — 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
