Once you have made up your mind, stick to it; there is no longer any 'if' or 'but'. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
If the Earth were a single state, Istanbul would be its capital. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
You can not lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
If I were to give liberty to the press, my power could not last three days. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Friends must always be treated as if one day they might be enemies. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
If you know a country's geography, you can understand and predict its foreign policy. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
If I had not been defeated in Acre against Jezzar Pasha of Turk. I would conquer all of the East. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Good infantry is without doubt the sinews of an army; but if it has to fight a long time against very superior… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
A general-in-chief should ask himself several times in the day, What if the enemy were to appear now in my front, or… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
When I want any, good head work done; I always choose a man, if possible with a long nose. — 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
A victorious general must know how to employ severity, justness, and mildness by turns, if he would allay sedition or prevent it. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
If fifty thousand men were to die for the good of the State, I certainly would weep for them, but political necessity… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The worse the man the better the soldier. If soldiers be not corrupt they ought to be made so. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Society cannot exist without inequality of fortunes and the inequality of fortunes could not subsist without religion. Whenever a half-starved person is… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
If I always appear prepared, it is because before entering an undertaking, I have meditated long and have foreseen what might occur.… — 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
Has a man the right to kill himself? Yes, if his death harms no one and if life is an evil to… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
We are made weak both by idleness and distrust of ourselves. Unfortunate, indeed, is he who suffers from both. If he is… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Charges of cavalry are equally useful at the beginning, the middle and the end of a battle. They should be made always,… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Die young, and I shall accept your death-but not if you have lived without glory, without being useful to your country, without… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
A commander in chief ought to say to himself several times a day: If the enemy should appear on my front, on… — 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
It would be a joke if the conduct of the victor had to be justified to the vanquished. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
In war, as in politics, no evil - even if it is permissible under the rules - is excusable unless it is… — 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
If it had not been for the English I should have been emperor of the East, but wherever there is water to… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Cossacks are the best light troops among all that exist. If I had them in my army, I would go through all… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
If you (to General Bertrand) do not perceive that Jesus Christ is God, very well; then I did wrong to make you… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
If you build an army of 100 lions and their leader is a dog, in any fight, the lions will die like… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
When you determine to risk a battle, reserve to yourself every possible chance of success, more particularly if you have to deal… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
If you want to get on in this world make many promises, but don't keep them. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
If you wage war, do it energetically and with severity. This is the only way to make it shorter and consequently less… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Unite for the public safety, if you would remain an independent nation. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Whatever may be the position in life of a parent, it is his duty to share his crust with his children. If… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
There are two merits that glorify a person: being courageous for a man and being virtuous for a woman. Besides these two,… — 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
