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Famous Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
“Tis a principle of war that when you can use the lightning, 'tis better than cannon.”
“All the women in the world would not make me lose an hour.”
“It strengthens the bonds between nations to have the same civil laws and the same monetary system.”
“Nothing renders a nation so despicable as religious despotism.”
“Equality should be the chief basis of the education of youth.”
“A nation recruits men more easily than it can retrieve its honour.”
“Military despotism represses generous sentiments, priestly tyranny stifles them.”
“Adversity is the midwife of genius”
“The true wealth of a state consists in the number of its inhabitants, in their toil and industry.”
“Victory is not always winning the battle...but rising every time you fall.”
“The great difficulty with politics is, that there are no established principles.”
“I pay attention only to what people do or say. I never pay attention to what they think.”
“A leader has the right to be beaten, but never the right to be surprised.”
“Conquests will come and go but Delambre's work will endure.”
“I may have had many projects, but I never was free to carry out any of them.”
“If I had not been defeated in Acre against Jezzar Pasha of Turk. I would conquer all of the East.”
“In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power.”