A new-born Government must shine and astonish - the moment it loses its éclat it falls. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
In political administration, no problem is ever simple. It can never be reduced to the question whether a certain measure is good… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Great events ever depend but upon a single hair. The adroit man profits by everything, neglects nothing which can increase his chances;… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Each state claims the right to control interests foreign to itself when those interests are such that it can control them without… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Public morals are natural complement of all laws they are by themselves an entire code. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Democracy, if it is reasonable, limits itself to giving everyone an equal opportunity to compete and to obtain. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Good and decent people must be protected and persuaded by gentle means, but the rabble must be led by terror. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Men who have changed the world never achieved their success by winning the chief citizens to their side, but always by stirring… — 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
A magistrate is not a father; he must be just and severe. Only tyrants are fathers. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
It would be a joke if the conduct of the victor had to be justified to the vanquished. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
It is an ambassador's duty to stand up for his nation's foreign policy in any era and under any government whatsoever. Ambassadors… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
A great Nation should have a fixed Government, so that the death of one man should not overturn it. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
A legislator must know how to take advantage of even the defects of those he wants to govern. The art consists in… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Nothing is more arrogant than the weakness which feels itself supported by power. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The populace judges of the power of God by the power of the priests. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Pure politics is merely the calculus of combinations and of chances. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me. — 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
