Unity of command is essential to the economy of time. Warfare in the field was like a siege: by directing all one's… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Friends must always be treated as if one day they might be enemies. — 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
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
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
