Napoleon Quotes And Sayings

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“Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.”
– Napolean Bonaparte

“Great people are meteors designed to burn so that the earth may be lighted.”
– Napolean Bonaparte

“Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting.”
– Napolean Bonaparte

“He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.”
– Napolean Bonaparte

“He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.”
– Napolean Bonaparte

“History is a set of lies agreed upon.”
– Napolean Bonaparte

“History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.”
– Napolean Bonaparte

“I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.”
– Napolean Bonaparte

“I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne.”
– Napolean Bonaparte

“I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.”
– Napolean Bonaparte

“I have only one counsel for you – be master.”
– Napolean Bonaparte

“I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.”
– Napolean Bonaparte

“I made all my generals out of mud.”
– Napolean Bonaparte

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

“If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.”
– Napolean Bonaparte

“If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.”
– Napolean Bonaparte

“If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.”
– Napolean Bonaparte

“If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.”
– Napolean Bonaparte

“Imagination rules the world.”
– Napolean Bonaparte

“Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.”
– Napolean Bonaparte

“In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.”
– Napolean Bonaparte

“In politics stupidity is not a handicap.”
– Napolean Bonaparte

“In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it”
– Napolean Bonaparte

“In politics, an absurdity is not a handicap.”
– Napolean Bonaparte

“In politics… never retreat, never retract… never admit a mistake.”
– Napolean Bonaparte

“Incidents should not govern policy; but, policy incidents.”
– Napolean Bonaparte

“It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.”
– Napolean Bonaparte

“It requires more courage to suffer than to die.”
– Napolean Bonaparte

“Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies.”
– Napolean Bonaparte

“Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.”
– Napolean Bonaparte

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