Bonaparte, Napoleon (Napoleon Bonaparte)

A leader is a dealer in hope.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

Immortality is the recollection one leaves
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

Those who are free from common prejudices acquire others.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"A government protected by foreigners will never be accepted by a free people."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"A great people may be killed, but they cannot be intimidated."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"A great reserve and severity of manners are necessary for the command of those who are older than ourselves."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"A leader is a dealer in hope."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"A picture is worth a thousand words."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"A portion of the multitude must ever be coerced."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"A throne is only a bench covered with velvet."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"A true man hates no one."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Ability is nothing without opportunity."
-- 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


-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Better to have a known enemy than a forced ally."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Better to have an open enemy, than hidden friends."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Death may expiate faults, but cannot repair them."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Different subjects and different affairs are arranged in my head as in a cupboard. When I wish to interrupt one train of thought, I shut that drawer and open another. Do I wish to sleep, I simply close all the drawers and then I am - asleep."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

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

"Every soldier carries a marshall's baton in his pack."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Experience proves that armies are not always sufficient to save a nation; while a nation defended by it's people is ever invincible."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Fanaticism must first be lulled, in order that it may be eradicated."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Free trade favors all classes, excites all imaginations, and rouses the whole population; it is identical with equality, and tends naturally to independence."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Great ambition is the passion of a great character. He who is endowed with it may perform either very great actions or very bad ones; all depends upon the principles which direct him."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Greatness is nothing unless it be lasting."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"He who fears being conquered is certain of defeat."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"He who is unmoved by tears has no heart."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"History is a fraud agreed upon"
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"I am never angry when contradicted, I seek to be enlightened."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"I have recognised the limits of my eyesight and of my legs, but never the limits of my working power."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"If I always appear prepared, it is because before entering an undertaking, I have meditated long and have foreseen what might occur. It is not genius where reveals to me suddenly and secretly what I should do in circumstances unexpected by others; it is thought and preparation."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Imagination rules the world."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"In politics stupidity is not a handicap."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"It is the cause, and not the death, that makes the martyr."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"It is the province of honest men to enlighten the government."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"It requires more courage to suffer than to die."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Many a one commits a reprehensible action, who is at bottom an honourable man, because man seldom acts upon natural impulse, but from some secret passion of the moment which lies hidden and concealed within the narrowest folds of his heart."
-- 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

"My motto has always been: A career open to all talents, without distinctions of birth."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses; but when you have bad news, arouse me immediately, for then there is not an instant to be lost."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Passionate people invariably deny their anger, and cowards often boast their ignorance of fear."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"People accustomed to great victories, know not how to support a day of reverse."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Power is founded on opinion."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Speeches pass away, but acts remain."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Strategy is the art of making use of time and space. I am less concerned about the latter than the former. Space we can recover, lost time never."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"The best cure for the body is a quiet mind."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"The best way to keep one's word is not to give it."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"The spectacle of a field of battle after the combat is sufficient to inspire princes with the love of peace and the horror of war."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"The stupid speak of the past, the wise of the present, and fools of the future."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"The true character of man ever displays itself in great events."
-- 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

"There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"There is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous."
-- 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

"To extraordinary circumstances we must apply extraordinary remedies."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Victory belongs to the most persevering."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"War is the business of barbarians."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"We must not take up arms for vain prospects of grandeur, nor the allurements of conquest."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"We must take things as we find them, and not as we wish them to be."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"We walk faster when we walk alone."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte