Quotes By Napoleon Bonaparte

War is ninety percent information.

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.

The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.

I have only one counsel for you - be master.

I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne.

When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.

The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.

A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.

I made all my generals out of mud.

Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

The love of glory is like the bridge that Satan built across Chaos to pass from Hell to Paradise: glory links the past with the future across a bottomless abyss. Nothing to my son, except my name!

Variety made the Revolution. Liberty was just a pretext.

Of all the peoples of Europe, Spaniards disgust me the least.

There shall be no Alps.

You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I have no time for such nonsense.

Society is impossible without inequality, inequality intolerable without a code of morality, and a code of morality unacceptable without religion.

To have ultimate victory, you must be ruthless.