Napoleon

Democracy may become frenzied, but it has feelings and can be moved. As for aristocracy, it is always cold and never forgives.

Napoleon

Democracy, if it is reasonable, limits itself to giving everyone an equal opportunity to compete and to obtain.

Napoleon

Destiny urges me to a goal of which I am ignorant. Until that goal is attained I am invulnerable, unassailable. When Destiny has accomplished her purpose in me, a fly may suffice to destroy me.

Napoleon

Die young, and I shall accept your death – but not if you have lived without glory, without being useful to your country, without leaving a trace of your existence: for that is not to have lived at all.

Napoleon

Diplomacy is the police in grand costume.

Napoleon

Do not talk to me of goodness, of abstract justice, of nature law. Necessity is the highest law, public welfare is the highest justice.

Napoleon

Do you know what amazes me more than anything else? The impotence of force to organize anything.

Napoleon

Do you know what astonished me the most in this world? The inability of force to create anything.

Napoleon

Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man.

Napoleon

England is a nation of shopkeepers.

Napoleon