Napoleon

Those who failed to oppose me, who readily agreed with me and accepted all my views, were those who did me the most injury.

Napoleon

Timid and cowardly soldiers cause the loss of a nation’s independence; but pusillanimous magistrates destroy the empire of the laws, the rights of the throne, and even social order itself.

Napoleon

Tis a principle of war that when you can use the lightning, ’tis better than cannon.

Napoleon

To a father who loves his children victor has no charms. When the heart speaks, glory itself is an illusion.

Napoleon

To attach no importance to public opinion, is a proof that you do not merit its suffrage.

Napoleon

To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war.

Napoleon

To imagine that it is possible to perform great military deeds without fighting is just empty dreams.

Napoleon

To listen to the interests of all marks an ordinary government; to foresee them marks a great government.

Napoleon

To negotiate is not to do as one likes.

Napoleon

To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.

Napoleon