Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Impossible is the word found only in a fool's dictionary. Wise people create opportunities for themselves and make everything possible... — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Passionate people invariably deny their anger, and cowards often boast their ignorance of fear. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Those who have changed the universe have never done it by changing officials, but always by inspiring the people. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
It is my wish that my ashes may repose on the banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people,… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Hereditary succession to the magistracy is absurd, as it tends to make a property of it; it is incompatible with the sovereignty… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The only way to lead people is to show them a future: a leader is a dealer in hope. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
We must serve the people worthily, and not occupy ourselves in trying to please them. The best way, to gain their affections… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
War is not at all such a difficult art as people think. . . . In reality it would seem that he… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
As for myself, I do not believe that such a person as Jesus Christ ever existed; but as the people are inclined… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Alexander, Charlemagne and myself all tried to found an empire on force and we failed. Jesus Christ is building an empire on… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
A people that is able to say everything, becomes able to do everything. The crowd which follows me with admiration, would run… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Muhammad was a great man, an intrepid soldier; with a handful of men he triumphed at the battle of Bender (sic); a… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Liberty is a need felt by a small class of people whom nature has endowed with nobler minds than the mass of… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
People take England on trust, and repeat that Shakespeare is the greatest of all authors. I have read him: there is nothing… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
They are the carrion birds of humanity...[speaking of the Jews] are a state within a state. They are certainly not real citizens...The… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
There are two merits that glorify a person: being courageous for a man and being virtuous for a woman. Besides these two,… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
For today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created, for the first time in all… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Washington is dead! This great man fought against Tyranny; he established the liberty of his country. His memory will always be dear… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
To make yourself understood to people, one must first speak to their eyes — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Orders and decorations are necessary in order to dazzle the people. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
A Government protected by foreigners will never be accepted by a free people. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
There is no class of people so hard to manage in a state, as those whose intentions are honest, but whose consciences… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
For the stability of the Government, the people should have a considerable voice in the elections. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The people excited by ambitious demagogues, sooner or later return into the hands of the Aristocracy. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I pay attention only to what people do or say. I never pay attention to what they think. — 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
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