Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes, Confused Quotes, Army Quotes

Among so many conflicting ideas and so many different perspectives, the honest man is confused and distressed and the skeptic becomes wicked ... Since one must take sides, one might as well choose the side that is victorious, the side which devastates, loots, and burns. Considering the alternative, it is better to eat than to be eaten.

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From triumph to downfall there is but one step. I have noted that, in the most momentous occasions, mere nothings have always decided the outcome of the greatest events.

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The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

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They are the carrion birds of humanity...[speaking of the Jews] are a state within a state. They are certainly not real citizens...The evils of Jews do not stem from individuals but from the fundamental nature of these people.

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My business is to succeed, and I’m good at it. I create my Iliad by my actions, create it day by day.

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The art of war is to gain time when your strength is inferior.

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In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

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Women are nothing but machines for producing children.

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A legislator must know how to take advantage of even the defects of those he wants to govern. The art consists in making others work rather than in wearing oneself out.

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The barbarous custom of having men beaten who are suspected of having important secrets to reveal must be abolished. It has always been recognized that this way of interrogating men, by putting them to torture, produces nothing worthwhile.

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I shall be an Attila to Venice.

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The logical end to defensive warfare is surrender.

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In war, the general alone can judge of certain arrangements. It depends on him alone to conquer difficulties by his own superior talents and resolution.

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There is no strength without justice.

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Charges of cavalry are equally useful at the beginning, the middle and the end of a battle. They should be made always, if possible, on the flanks of the infantry, especially when the latter is engaged in front.

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I tell you Wellington is a bad general, the English are bad soldiers; we will settle this matter by lunch time.

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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

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Being in the Tuileries is not everything: what matters is to stay here.

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I would rather have a general who was lucky than one who was good.

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Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent.

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