Napoleon Bonaparte
83 quotations
When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.
Men are lead by trifles.
Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.
An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.
The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes.
The only victory over love is flight.
Incidents should not govern policy; but, policy incidents.
It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.
The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.
Medicines are only fit for old people.
A true man hates no one.
Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.
There are two levers for moving men -- interest and fear.
The French complain of everything, and always.
Occupation is the scythe of time.
Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.
Order marches with weighty and measured strides. Disorder is always in a hurry.
Do you know what amazes me more than anything else? The impotence of force to organize anything.
Who saves his country violates no law.
If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon-shots.
The art of the police is not to see what it is useless that it should see.
In politics, an absurdity is not a handicap.
In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.
When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.