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Famous Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
“Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.”
“Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.”
“It's the unconquerable soul of man, and not the nature of the weapon he uses, that ensures victory”
“Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances”
“Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.”
“I make my battle plans from the spirit of my sleeping soldiers”
“Of all the peoples of Europe, Spaniards disgust me the least.”
“In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them.”
“I saw the crown of France laying on the ground, so I picked it up with my sword.”
“When you have an enemy in your power, deprive him of the means of ever injuring you.”
“What is the government? Nothing, unless supported by opinion.”
“Orders and decorations are necessary in order to dazzle the people.”
“There are so many laws that no one is safe from hanging.”
Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut
“Success is the most convincing talker in the world.”
Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut
“As a rule it is circumstances that make men.”
Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut
Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut
“Ordinarily men exercise their memory much more than their judgment.”
Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut
“We frustrate many designs against us by pretending not to see them.”
Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut
“A general must be a charlatan.”
Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut
Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut
“He who cannot look over a battlefield with a dry eye, causes the death of many men uselessly.”
Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut
“Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.”
Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut
“To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.”
Source: The Corsican: The Virtual Diary of Napoleon Bonaparte
“The secret of great battles consists in knowing how to deploy and concentrate at the right time.”
“When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.”
“I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets.”