Remember, gentlemen, what a Roman emperor said: The corpse of an enemy always smells sweet. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
In war, as in love, we must come into contact before we triumph. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
If I had believed in a God of rewards and punishments, I might have lost courage in battle — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
War is a lottery in which nations ought to risk nothing but small amounts. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
In war, character and opinion make more than half of the reality. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
It is not set speeches at the moment of battle that render soldiers brave. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
In war, the general alone can judge of certain arrangements. It depends on him alone to conquer difficulties by his own superior… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
It is cowardly to commit suicide. The English often kill themselves. It is a malady caused by the humid climate. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
In war, three-quarters turns on personal character and relations; the balance of manpower and materials counts only for the remaining quarter. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
If the art of war were nothing but the art of avoiding risks, glory would become the prey of mediocre minds… I… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Strategy is the art of making use of time and space. I am less concerned about the later than the former. Space… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The object of war is victory, the object of victory is conquest, and the object of conquest is occupation. — 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
Artillery is more essential to cavalry than to infantry, because cavalry has no fire for its defence, but depends on the sabre. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
In revolution there are only two sorts of men, those who cause them and those who profit by them. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
War must be made as intense and awful as possible in order to make it short, and thus to diminish its horrors. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The transition from the defensive to the offensive is one of the most delicate operations in war. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
What my enemies call a general peace is my destruction. What I call peace is merely the disarmament of my enemies. Am… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
In war, as in politics, no evil - even if it is permissible under the rules - is excusable unless it is… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Peoples of Egypt , you will be told that I have come to destroy your religion. Do not believe it! Reply that… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
How many things apparently impossible have nevertheless been performed by resolute men who had no alternative but death. — 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
An army's effectiveness depends on its size, training, experience, and morale, and morale is worth more than any of the other factors… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The spectacle of a field of battle after the combat, is sufficient to inspire Princes with the love of peace, and the… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
It should not be believed that a march of three or four days in the wrong direction can be corrected by a… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
In war you see your own troubles; those of the enemy you cannot see. You must show confidence. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Even when I am gone, I shall remain in people's minds the star of their rights, my name will be the war… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Much shedding of blood, many great actions, and triumphs, toil and perseverance are the end of all things human. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The fate of war is to be exalted in the morning, and low enough at night! There is but one step from… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
When defending itself against another country, a nation never lacks men, but too often, soldiers. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
A battle sometimes decides everything; and sometimes the most trifling thing decides the fate of a battle. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
There are times when a battle decides everything, and there are times when the most insignificant thing can decide the outcome of… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
There are certain things in war of which the commander alone comprehends the importance. Nothing but his superior firmness and ability can… — 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
Men soon get tired of shedding their blood for the advantage of a few individuals, who think they amply reward the soldiers… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Soldiers! Here is the battle you have so long desired! Henceforth victory depends on you; we have need of 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
