Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes - Page 31

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• A victorious general must know how to employ severity, justness, and mildness by turns, if he would allay sedition or prevent it.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Mildness, Turns

  Napoleon Bonaparte (2012). “Napoleon's Military Maxims”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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• Victory and disaster establish indestructible bonds between armies and their commanders.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Army, Victory

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• The true policy of government is to make use of aristocracy, but under the forms and in the spirit of democracy.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Government, Class, Democracy

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• So you think the police foresees and knows everything. The police invents more than it discovers.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Thinking, Police, Knows

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• Posterity will talk of Washington as the founder of a great empire, when my name shall be lost in the vortex of revolution.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Names, Empires, Revolution

  "Quotations for Special Occasions". Book by Maud Van Buren, 1937.

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• I cannot approve of your method of operation, you proceed like a bewildered idiot, taking not the least notice of my orders.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Military, Order, Idiot

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• You cannot drag a man's conscience before any tribunal, and no one is answerable for his religious opinions to any power on earth.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Religious, Men, Earth

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• Man, not men, is the most important consideration.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Men, Important

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• Good infantry is without doubt the sinews of an army; but if it has to fight a long time against very superior artillery, it will become demoralized and will be destroyed.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Army, Fighting

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• War is like government, a matter of tact.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Government, Matter

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• It is not set speeches at the moment of battle that render soldiers brave.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Brave, Soldier

  Napoleon Bonaparte (2012). “Napoleon's Military Maxims”, p.65, Courier Corporation

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• Artillery is more essential to cavalry than to infantry, because cavalry has no fire for its defence, but depends on the sabre.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Fire, Essentials

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• In a narrow sphere great men are blunderers.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Greatness, Men, Spheres

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• Secrets travel fast in Paris.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Paris, Secret

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• The word impossible is not French.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Writing, Impossible

  "Famous Sayings and their Authors" by Edward Latham, (p. 138), 1906.

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• Tragedy warms the soul, elevates the heart, can and ought to create heroes. In this sense, perhaps, France owes a part of her great actions to Corneille.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Hero, Heart, Soul

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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.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Battle, Infantry

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• If it had not been for the English I should have been emperor of the East, but wherever there is water to float a ship we are sure to find them in our way.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Should Have, History, Water

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• Immortality is the best recollection one leaves.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Immortality, Recollection

  "Memoirs of Napoleon" published by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, (1829-1831).

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• You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Bayonets, Can Do

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• Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Hands, Revolution, Republican

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• An empty throne always tempts me.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Thrones, Empty

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• Policemen and prisons ought never to be the means used to bring men back to the practice of religion.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Mean, Men, Practice

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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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.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Lunch, Soldier, Matter

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• To a father who loves his children victor has no charms. When the heart speaks, glory itself is an illusion.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Children, Father, Heart

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