The only way to lead people is to show them a future: a leader is a dealer in hope. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The best way to make every one poor is to insist on equality of wealth. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
We must serve the people worthily, and not occupy ourselves in trying to please them. The best way, to gain their affections… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
If you wage war, do it energetically and with severity. This is the only way to make it shorter and consequently less… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The greatest ornament of an illustrious life is modesty and humility, which go a great way in the character even of the… — 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
God has decreed that there be sick and poor in this world, but in the next it will be the other way… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Read over and over again the campaigns of Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, Gustavus, Turenne, Eugene and Frederic. ... This is the only way… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The barbarous custom of having men beaten who are suspected of having important secrets to reveal must be abolished. It has always… — 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
