In war as in love, to bring matters to a close, you must get close together. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Being in the Tuileries is not everything: what matters is to stay here. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I tell you Wellington is a bad general, the English are bad soldiers; we will settle this matter by lunch time. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
In matters of government, justice means force as well as virtue. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Everything is more or less organized matter. To think so is against religion, but I think so just the same. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
There are in Europe many good generals, but they see too many things at once. I see one thing, namely the enemy's… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Surely in a matter of this kind we should endeavor to do something, that we may say that we have not lived… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
It must be recognized that the real truths of history are hard to discover. Happily, for the most part, they are rather… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I may have had many projects, but I never was free to carry out any of them. It did me little good… — 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
