Napoleon

A people that is able to say everything, becomes able to do everything. The crowd which follows me with admiration, would run with the same eagerness were I marching to the Guillotine.

Napoleon

A portion of the multitude must ever be coerced.

Napoleon

A prince should suspect everything.

Napoleon

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.

Napoleon

A society without religion is like a vessel without compass.

Napoleon

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

Napoleon

A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.

Napoleon

A true master of politics is able to calculate, down to the smallest fraction, the advantages to which he may put his very faults.

Napoleon

Ability is of little account without opportunity. I have very rarely met with two o’clock in the morning courage: I mean instantaneous courage.

Napoleon

Agriculture is the soul and chief support of empires; industry produces riches and the happiness of the people; exportation represents the superabundance, and good use of both.

Napoleon