Quotes By Napoleon Bonaparte

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

England is a nation of shopkeepers.

I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

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.

Imagination rules the world.

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.

War is the business of barbarians.

When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.

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.

I made all my generals out of mud.

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.