Between a battle lost and a battle won, the distance is immense and there stand empires. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Posterity will talk of Washington as the founder of a great empire, when my name shall be lost in the vortex of… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Strategy is the art of making use of time and space. I am less concerned about the later than the former. Space… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses; but when you have bad news,… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I have noticed in every campaign that I have fought-that there is a key segment of time, somewhere between 13 and 15… — 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
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
