Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

You don't govern men who don't have religion, you shoot them.

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Sometimes a single battle decides everything and sometimes, too, the slightest circumstance decides the issue of a battle. There is a moment in every battle at which the least manoeuvre is decisive and gives superiority, as one drop of water causes overflow.

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Over-preparation is the foe of inspiration.

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Wherever wood can swim, there I am sure to find this flag of England.

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A King should sacrifice the best affections of his heart for the good of his country; no sacrifice should be above his determination.

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To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.

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Laws which are consistent in theory often prove chaotic in practice.

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Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

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I am conquered less by fortune than by the egotism and ingratitude of my companions in arms.

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Lies circle the earth while Truth is still trying to put on its shoes.

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Which is heavier: a soldier's pack or a slave's chains?

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He who is unmoved by tears has no heart.

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True wisdom, in general, consists in energetic determination.

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Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

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In war it is not men, but the man who counts.

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A nation recruits men more easily than it can retrieve its honour.

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The inevitable end of multiple chiefs is that they fade and disappear for lack of unity.

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Bloodletting is among the ingredients of political medicine.

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The great difficulty with politics is, that there are no established principles.

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A commander-in-chief cannot take as an excuse for his mistakes in warfare an order given by his sovereign or his minister when the person giving the order is absent from the field of operations and is imperfectly aware or wholly unaware of the latest state of affairs. It follows that any commander-in-chief who undertakes to carry out a plan which he considers defective is at fault; he must put forward his reasons, insist on the plan being changed, and finally tender his resignation rather than be the instrument of his army's downfall.

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