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Famous Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
“Remember, gentlemen, what a Roman emperor said: The corpse of an enemy always smells sweet.”
“Between a battle lost and a battle won, the distance is immense and there stand empires.”
“In revolution there are only two sorts of men, those who cause them and those who profit by them.”
“War is cruel to the people, and terrible to the conquered.”
“Victory and disaster establish indestructible bonds between armies and their commanders.”
“To extraordinary circumstance we must apply extraordinary remedies.”
“When defending itself against another country, a nation never lacks men, but too often, soldiers.”
“The mind of a general ought to resemble and be as clear as the field-glass of a telescope.”
“The allies we gain by victory will turn against us upon the bare whisper of our defeat.”
“The admiral needs only one science, that of navigation. The general needs all the sciences.”
“It is not set speeches at the moment of battle that render soldiers brave.”
“Insubordination may only be the evidence of a strong mind.”
“In war, as in love, we must come into contact before we triumph.”
“I have fought sixty battles, and I have learnt nothing which I did not know at the beginning.”
“Every means should be taken to attach the soldier to his colours.”
“At the head of an army, nothing is more becoming than simplicity.”
“In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments.”
“In war there is but one favorable moment; the great art is to seize it!”
“I love a brave soldier who has undergone the baptism of fire.”