Quotes By Napoleon Bonaparte

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Death is nothing; but to live defeated and without glory is to die every day.

A man does not have himself killed for a half pence a day or for a petty distinction. You must speak to the soul in order to electrify the man.

All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some added opportunity; the less clever man, by neglecting one thing, sometimes misses everything.

The true conquests, the only ones that cause no regret, are those made over ignorance.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

Imagination governs the world.

I never was truly my own master but was always ruled by circumstances.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

One must never ask of fortune more than she can grant.

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

Good and decent people must be protected and persuaded by gentle means, but the rabble must be led by terror.

If fifty thousand men were to die for the good of the State, I certainly would weep for them, but political necessity comes before everything else.

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

If you wish to be success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

Where the Government is weak, military sway prevails.

The great art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs.

There are two levers for moving men, interest and fear.