976 Quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte

You write to me that it's impossible. The word is not French.

The best way to make every one poor is to insist on equality of wealth.

What are the conditions that make for the superiority of an army? Its internal organization, military habits in officers and men, the confidence of each in themselves; that is to say, bravery, patience, and all that is contained in the idea of moral means.

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

The affairs of war, like the destiny of battles, as well as empires, hang upon a spiders thread.

In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

Morality has nothing to do with such a man as I am.

I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay their hands on everything they can get.

The most constant, the most powerful, and the most generous of all my enemies.