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“Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“The word impossible is not in my dictionary.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“What is history but a fable agreed upon?”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“I have only one counsel for you - be master.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“It requires more courage to suffer than to die.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“England is a nation of shopkeepers.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“France has more need of me than I have need of France.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“Victory belongs to the most persevering.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
