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
Agriculture is the soul and chief support of empires; industry produces riches and the happiness of the people; exportation represents the superabundance,… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
To make yourself understood to people, one must first speak to their eyes — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent. — 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
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
The confidence with which a Sovereign is invested, is solid only when it is sanctioned by the suffrages of the people, who… — 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
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
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world. — 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
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
Those who have changed the universe have never done it by changing officials, but always by inspiring the people. — 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
What is a throne? - a bit of wood gilded and covered in velvet. I am the state- I alone am here… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The world soffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people. But because of the silence of the good people. — 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
A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Called to the throne by the voice of the people, my maxim has always been: A career open to talent without distinction… — 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
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
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
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
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
