For the stability of the Government, the people should have a considerable voice in the elections. — 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
I marvel that whereas the ambitious dreams of my self, Caesar, and Alexander should have vanished into thin air, a Judean peasant-Jesus-s… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Machiavelli is right: one always must live with one's friends with the idea that they may turn into one's enemies. He should… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
If it had not been for the English I should have been emperor of the East, but wherever there is water to… — 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