Inspirational Quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte · Page 6

An Emperor confides in national soldiers, not in mercenaries.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

A starving army is actually worse than none.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The English have no exaulted sentiments. They can all be bought.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I base my calculation on the expectation that luck will be against me.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

My enemies make appointments at my tomb.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Great men are never cruel without necessity.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

It is not enough to give orders they must be obeyed.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

In war the simplest manoeuvres are the best.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Do you know what amazes me more than anything else? The impotence of force to organize anything.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

If you wage war, do it energetically and with severity. This is the only way to make it shorter and consequently less…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

A great European federative system alone can be favourable to the development of civilisation.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I engage and after that I see what to do.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

So you think the police foresees and knows everything. The police invents more than it discovers.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

In a great nation, the majority are incapable of judging wisely of things.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Order marches with weighty and measured strides. Disorder is always in a hurry.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Let her sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

All Italians are plunderers.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

He who is unmoved by tears has no heart.

— Napoleon Bonaparte