If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
When I want any, good head work done; I always choose a man, if possible with a long nose. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
If you want to get on in this world make many promises, but don't keep them. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I want the whole of Europe to have one currency; it will make trading much easier. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I don't employ Talleyrand when I want a thing done, but only when I want to have the appearance of wanting to… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I have made noise enough in the world already, perhaps too much, and am now getting old, and want retirement. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The first quality of a soldier is constancy in enduring fatigue and hardship. Courage is only the second. Poverty privation and want… — 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
Give me a man with a good allowance of nose,... when I want any good head-work done I choose a man -… — 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
Whatever may be the position in life of a parent, it is his duty to share his crust with his children. If… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Send me 300 francs; that sum will enable me to go to Paris. There, at least, one can cut a figure and… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The nature of Christ's existence is mysterious, I admit; but this mystery meets the wants of man. Reject it, and the world… — 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
