The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Order marches with weighty and measured strides. Disorder is always in a hurry. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Orders and decorations are necessary in order to dazzle the people. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
In order not to be astonished at obtaining victories, one ought not to think only of defeats. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
In order that a people may be free, it is necessary that the governed be sages, and those who govern, gods. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
War must be made as intense and awful as possible in order to make it short, and thus to diminish its horrors. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
A man does not have himself killed for a half-pence a day or for a petty distinction. You must speak to the… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Nothing is so contrary to military rules as to make the strength of your army known, either in the orders of the… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I cannot approve of your method of operation, you proceed like a bewildered idiot, taking not the least notice of my orders. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Timid and cowardly soldiers cause the loss of a nation's independence; but pusillanimous magistrates destroy the empire of the laws, the rights… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
In the last analysis, one must be a military man in order to govern. It is only with boot and spurs that… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
How can you have order in a state without religion? For, when one man is dying of hunger near another who is… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
For my part, it is not the mystery of the incarnation which I discover in religion, but the mystery of social order,… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Every beggar shall be arrested. But to arrest a beggar merely in order to put him in jail would be barbarous and… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
What I have done up to this is nothing. I am only at the beginning of the course I must run. Do… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I closed the gulf of anarchy and brought order out of chaos. I rewarded merit regardless of birth or wealth, wherever I… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The Jesuits are a MILITARY organization, not a religious order. Their chief is a general of an army, not the mere father… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
This soldier, I realized, must have had friends at home and in his regiment; yet he lay there deserted by all except… — 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
