It is rare that a legislature reasons. It is too quickly impassioned. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The reason I beat the Austrians is, they did not known the value of five minutes — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
An army must have but one line of operations. This must be maintained with care and abandoned only for major reasons. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
It is an approved maxim in war, never to do what the enemy wishes you to do, for this reason alone, that… — 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
A well-composed song strikes the mind and softens the feelings, and produces a greater effect than a moral work, which convinces our… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
It follows that any commander in chief who undertakes to carry out a plan which he considers defective is at fault; he… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
A commander-in-chief cannot take as an excuse for his mistakes in warfare an order given by his sovereign or his minister when… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Suicide is a crime the most revolting to the feelings; nor does any reason suggest itself to our understanding by which it… — 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
