Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes About Army

Quotes about: Army

• Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Break Up, Hope, Courage

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• If you build an army of 100 lions and their leader is a dog, in any fight, the lions will die like a dog. But if you build an army of 100 dogs and their leader is a lion, all dogs will fight as a lion

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Dog, Fighting, Army

• Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Veterans Day, War, Work

• The Mohammedan religion is the finest of all.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Army, Finest

  "Talks of Napoleon at St. Helena with General Baron Gourgaud, together with the journal kept by Gourgaud on their journey from Waterloo to St Helena", (pp. 279 - 280), 1903.

• The Jesuits are a MILITARY organization, not a religious order. Their chief is a general of an army, not the mere father abbot of a monastery. And the aim of this organization is power - power in its most despotic exercise - absolute power, universal power, power to control the world by the volition of a single man. Jesuitism is the most absolute of despotisms - and at the same time the greatest and most enormous of abuses.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Religious, Father, Military

• I hope the time is not far off when I shall be able to unite all the wise and educated men of all the countries and establish a uniform regime based on the principles of the Quran which alone are true and which alone can lead men to happiness.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Wise, Country, Army

  "Correspondance Napoleon" edited by Henri Plon, Vol. 4, No. 3148, (p. 420), 1861.

• The Bible is not merely a book-it is a living power. . . . Nowhere as in the Bible can be found such a series of beautiful ideas and admirable maxims which pose before us like the battalions of a celestial army. . . . The soul can never go astray while it has this book for its guide.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Life, Beautiful, Book

• An army marches on its stomach.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Food, Army

  Attributed in Wash. Post, 18 Sept. 1898. According to the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, this was "probably condensed from a long passage in E. A. de Las Cases Memorial de Ste-Helene (1823) vol. 4, 14 Nov. 1816; also attributed to Frederick the Great, in Notes and Queries 10 March 1866." The 1866 attribution to Frederick is worded "an army moves on (or by) its stomach."

• If the art of war were nothing but the art of avoiding risks, glory would become the prey of mediocre minds.... I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Art, War, Fate

  "The Mind of Napoleon" by J. Christopher Herold, (p. 45), 1955.

• My waking thoughts are all of thee. Your portrait and the remembrance of last night's delirium have robbed my senses of repose. Sweet and incomparable Josephine, what an extraordinary influence you have over my heart. Are you vexed? Do I see you sad? Are you ill at ease? My soul is broken with grief, and there is no rest for your lover.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Sweet, Grief, Heart

  "Napoleon's Letters to Josephine 1796-1812" edited by Henry Foljambe Hall, 1901.

• Muhammad was a prince; he rallied his compatriots around him. In a few years, the Muslims conquered half of the world. They plucked more souls from false gods, knocked down more idols, razed more pagan temples in fifteen years than the followers of Moses and Jesus did in fifteen centuries. Muhammad was a great man. He would indeed have been a god, if the revolution that he had performed had not been prepared by the circumstances.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Jesus, Army, Men

  "Campagnes d'Egypte et Syrie", Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, (p. 275), translated by John Tolan in "European Accounts of Muhammad's Life", 1998.

• Give Me a Turkish Army. I will Conquer world.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Army, Giving, World

• The bullet that will kill me is not yet cast.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Army, Bullets, Kill Me

  Statement at Montereau, February 17, 1814.

• Muhammad was a great man, an intrepid soldier; with a handful of men he triumphed at the battle of Bender (sic); a great captain, eloquent, a great man of state, he revived his fatherland and created a new people and a new power in the middle of Arabia.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Army, Men, People

  "Précis des guerres de César, écrit à Sainte-Hélène sous la dictée de l'empereur" edited by Comte Marchand, (p. 237), 1836.

• It's not the size of the army but the power within the army.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Army, Size, Brooms

• An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Inspirational, Army, Lions

  Napoleon Bonaparte “A selection from the letters and despatches of the first Napoleon”, Рипол Классик

• The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Mistake, Army, Navy

  Attributed in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1922.

• Our hour is marked, and no one can claim a moment of life beyond what fate has predestined.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Fate, Army, Moments

  To Dr. Arnott, April 1821.

• Women are nothing but machines for producing children.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Children, Women, Army

  "The St. Helena Journal of General Baron Gourgaud, 1815-1818 : Being a Diary written at St. Helena during a part of Napoleon's Captivity", translated by Norman Edwards, 1932.

• An army travels on its stomach. Soup makes the soldier.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Army, Soldier, Soup

• From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Army, Pyramids, Looks

  Speech to his troops in Egypt, July 21, 1798.

• Religions are all founded on miracles - on things we cannot understand, such as the Trinity. Jesus calls himself the Son of God, and yet is descended from David. I prefer the religion of Mahomet - it is less ridiculous than ours.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Jesus, Son, Army

  "The St. Helena Journal of General Baron Gourgaud, 1815-1818 : Being a Diary written at St. Helena during a part of Napoleon's Captivity", translated by Norman Edwards, 1932.

• An army's effectiveness depends on its size, training, experience, and morale, and morale is worth more than any of the other factors combined.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Army, Effectiveness

• One might as well try to charge through a wall.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Wall, Military, Army

• Cavalry is useful before, during, and after the battle.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Military, Army, Battle

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